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Is Acronis overkill for movie backup plan?

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I have about 2.5 TB of movies on a 5.0 TB drive. For Xmas my wife got me a 7.5 TB drive to use as backup. All I want to do is keep the movies safe, in case my main drive fails, I accidentally delete the movies, etc. My idea is to have some software do a full backup once, and then every Sunday night at 2am backup everything that's been added/changed in the previous week. That way I'd have a complete copy of everything I can get to if I need to recover anything. This doesn't need to backup anything other than the main movie directory, and maybe a couple others (TV shows, pictures, etc.) but I think I'd like the backup to be in the same format as the original so I can access and copy just one file if I need to instead of restoring from a series of image files. Also, I want to add that just because this is what I think is the best way I'm open to suggestions of a better way to do this. I admit I know very little about backup procedures and what will be easier/better/safer in the long run. There may even be a Windows based solution and Acronis is serious overkill, but I really don't mind buying the program if it offers benefits which I'm sure it does. Any suggestions on the best way to set up my back up plan? Am I thinking about this correctly?

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Joe, welcome to these public User Forums.

Acronis will not keep your files in their original format if you are using it just for backing up your movie files.  All ATI backups are stored in special container files using either .tib or .tibx file names and this will normally be compressed but this doesn't add any value when dealing with files that are already highly compressed in their native format, i.e. movie, music, photo files etc.

ATI is better suited to backing up your Windows OS and installed applications, along with user data such as documents etc that can be compressed.

You may be better served by looking at the different synchronisation applications that are available and will allow you to sync the files between your main movie location and your backup drive.  You could also use the integrated Windows Robocopy function to maintain your copies of files but this takes more learning to understand how to use it.

I would recommend a Sync app like Steve as well.  Have a look at one of the most popular, SyncToy at the link below:

SyncToy

SyncToy is developed by Microsoft as one of its Power Toys apps.