Thanks, Charles, I will give it a whirl.

And just to pre-empt any complaints that I was off-topic here (a frequent habit of mine, but I digress:), I actually was addressing Steve's need and my own. It's simple enough to do back up the SQL databases, and anyway they wouldn't fit on my flash drive. I was more concerned about stuff like word and excel and etc. documents, especially word. I don't cut that many fresh Excel sheets that it's worrisome, but I do write and rewrite lots of word docs, not to mention cmd files, powershell files, etc., sometimes lots per day, and it's just too hard to design a traditional backup that covers all the numerous directories and subdirs.

xxCopy may be the solution I'm seeking. I'll let you know.

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