One drive

[simon_101]

Hi I’m trying to back up my laptop with one drive and a external seagate back up drive.
I can only save files on a file on one drive but need a file on the PC to save on the seagate.
How can I save on both drive?

[xrobwx71]

What method or software are you using to save/backup these files?

[simon_101]

One drive backup on Windows 11 seagate back up drive

[xrobwx71]

Explain your process.

[simon_101]

Documents are saved on one drive but unable to save documents on seagate as it need to be a file in the PC

[Bruce]

I would expect your process to be something like…

when you installed OneDrive, you told it to (at least) add your Documents folder.
that way, whatever happens to a file in your Documents folder gets sync’d to the OneDrive folder.
nothing really needed on your behalf, all done automatically - your files are kept in the cloud with a copy kept on your PC for those times you may be offline.

as to backing up to the Seagate, you will need to use some sort of software (see my signature) to give it a list of files or folders. you tell it the source location and the destination and it will determine what files have changed since the last backup, and only copy those files to the Seagate drive.

is that what you are trying to achieve?

[simon_101]

Yes that is right, but it cant back up documents on seagate as they are held off the computer on one drive

[PeterOz]

but it cant back up documents on seagate as they are held off the computer on one drive

One drive should only be a copy of the folder .
Disconnect from the internet.
Check documents folder, are there any documents?

[simon_101]

The documents are stored on the one drive and copied on to the PC the seagate needs a drive stored on the PC? Yes they can be used offline

[simon_101]

Any idea anyone?

[Rustys]

Is the Seagate drive USB and or internal?

Why not just use the copy and paste to back up the files?

[simon_101]

Hi the seagate is USB
I will have to manually copy and past.the seagate is should do this automatically?

[Rustys]

That will depend on how the program that you are using is configured and same goes for the system.

Just because you plug in a USB storage device and the system recognizes it does not mean that the system automatically knows what you want it to do with said device.

[simon_101]

So how can this be achieved?

[xrobwx71]

I use this for various things similar to what you are trying to achieve other than Image backups.

https://freefilesync.org/tutorials.php