Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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There are lots of good solutions to the backing things up regularly. I keep Windows 10 File History going to an external USB drive (see Settings, Update&Security, Backup) but it only has file excludes. At the end of each day, I use SyncBack Pro with a specific list of folders. You can include and exclude files by extension with that. You can set it up to run regularly in the background and do versioning. I haven't used it as much but FreeFileSync can do many of the same things. Many of the cloud services have a way to create a virtual drive on your computer such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. I primarily use Google's Drive File Stream. You can work directly with those as the "local" drive or backup to them using file sync software. They don't usually have includes or excludes themselves but the sync software that I mentioned does. Another way to do it would be to use Windows Task Scheduler to just execute a batch file that copies specific files or file extensions. Use "Create Task" to have something run more than once per day. I haven't used that approach in years but it is higher flexible if you are familar with batch files.
