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donheff
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2 years ago
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Back up an external drive without using internal hard drive space

I have a PC with a 1T C Drive backed up with MS One Drive.  I am happy with that and do not want to change it.  I also have a 1T external SSID that I use to store astro photos.  I want to "backup" th...
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Rich
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2 years ago
@donheff wrote:

I also have a 1T external SSID ... Is there any way to set this up as a Dropbox backup without going through the PC C drive?

If you use the Backup feature, the content of the external drive will not be stored on your C drive.

 

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