I simply want to back up my Passport Essential with my Elements

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Hi

I am not an IT expert and I am very confused with everything.

I only store my data in  a WD Passport Essential SE.   Nothing on my laptop.

But once a month, I would like the WD Passport Essential to be transferred to my other external drive, WD Elements.

Can WD smartware do this job?

What I can see is  Smartware can backup from your laptop to your WD Passport Essential - can I change this to be with WD Elements  instead of my laptop?

Some type of synchronisation will be great so I don’t have to manually determine which ones are the new files.

Muchly appreciated.

Thanks !

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You can manually copy the items then tranfer them to the elements. but smartware only works with the drive that has the operating system installed on.

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The Smartware is also quirky and only backs up certain files. A sync program would probably work better for you. For Windows 7 there is Sync Toy but I haven’t used it.

Joe

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Thanks lawrence and joe

I am now looking at Sync Toy but it seems that Good Sync has a better user rating so I will try this one :slight_smile:

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I use the Good Sync Pro. After a trial period the free version cuts the amount you can do at one time so I bought it and like it.

Joe