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[Michael S.]

Now that I have cleaned up my classical CD rip collection (which took quite a while), looking to back up the library in future to avoid any possibility of losing it. 

Thinking will back up the library kept on my desktop's 2TB SSD hard drive to a portable 2TB SSD hard drive used with my work laptop.  I am also considering buying an additional 2TB SSD hard drive and keeping it in a separate location as a fail-safe for any possibility (house theft, fire, etc).

Any recommendations for good back-up software?  Would like something that records changes that occur from the date of the most recent backup on the original source and then just makes those changes to the destination when doing a back-up, so that you don't have to copy the entire collection of files every time.

Thanks.

Woops - meant to post this on the main board.  Is there an option to move?

[Awesome Donkey]

I personally do this manually using Beyond Compare every time I make changes to my main music library.

[zybex]

Manual backups is a recipe for disaster, unless you're Awesome.

I like Cobian Reflector. The site seems to be down at the moment, hopefully temporary.
FreeFileSync is also very nice, and open source. Particularly good for mirroring two folders, either one-way or bidirectionally. It's similar to BeyondCompare.

There are many other backup tools with support for full/differential/mirror scheduled backups.

[Manfred]

I use Acronis for local Backup and Acronis Cloud for Document & Image Backup since 2 years+. So far no issues. Some restores during the two years work perfectly (One time I accidentally deleted the directory with all my personal images,  so it was good to have a working backup .-)