Can’t I Just Copy Everything to Back Up?

➕ It's tempting to just use file-copy everything tools to back up what you think you need. But you can easily miss something very important.

You can back up by copying all files from your system drive to a backup drive. Files in use will be skipped, including much of Windows itself. This approach also frequently saves only the most recent copy of a file, overwriting whatever was saved previously. A dedicated backup program has neither of these limitations and will keep you much safer against a wider variety of threats.

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Chapters
0:00 Backup copies
0:32 Spoiler you can’t
0:56 Copy with Windows command prompt
1:21 What copying everything misses
2:41 Backup program copies everything
3:53 How you lose files
5:06 Incremental backups
7:32 It can work sometimes
9:10 Use a dedicated backup program

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