So if I wanted to know whether there was an earlier backup of MyFile.doc, I couldn’t use my preferred Everything file finder to immediately locate and view all copies I would have to go rooting through those Acronis or Macrium backup files. Moreover, as I recalled, these programs would put all backed-up files into a single compressed file, one per session. I didn’t want to rely on third-party software that might switch from being free to being paid (as had happened with Macrium some years earlier, before they switched back to offering a free version), or that might switch from being good to being semi-fubar, as had happened with Acronis. Instead of a mirroring program like Robocopy, one alternative was to use something like Acronis or Macrium to supplement a full drive backup with differential or incremental backups on a schedule.

The question was, how should I proceed? For reasons described here, I chose to use a Robocopy script, shown below. I had a bunch of data files on a Windows 10 desktop computer.

Robocopy faster