• backup for windows pc?

    From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to August Abolins on Thursday, March 27, 2025 14:57:06

    Whatcha all Windows users using for backup up your main PCs?

    I'd like to backup most of my files, but I have less than 15GB
    space free on a 250GB HDD. Can't add an extra HDD/SDD or
    replace the existing HDD at the moment (PC is a bit hard to
    access).

    The goal is to send the files to an offsite server, automated.
    But I am not interested in paying for a VPS for that. I'd like
    to encrypt the files myself and upload a bundle.

    I experimented with 7Zip and gpg, but found out that 7zip
    doesn't support pipes.

    Is there another rudimentary grassroots way to achieve this?

    Since gpg can only input one file at a time, I was thinking of
    building a FOR loop to create a gpg encrypted version for each
    file and pipe that to Winscp.

    This is for a Win7 environment, BTW.

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    August, I use Avast v11 for XP
    The XP box had 250GB HDD when bought.
    Some years back it was getting nearly full so I cloned the 250 GB HDD to a 2TB Internal HDD and switched them
    Kept the old 250GB drive jic...
    Ed
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