How to Make a One-Click Backup Button
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video we'll be making a simple one-click backup button so that you can make data backups regularly with ease.
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da fuk is this comment?
*Deletes files in main drive*
Me: "Ok let's restore the backed up files"
*Presses button*
Pc: "Synchronising... Files backed up"
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Me: *"Oh"*
Yeah, I thought of that too. In that case, you should kill the background process in Task Manager before plugging the drive in.
That's like something I would do.
That's why he chose "mirror" instead of "two way". Which mean backup drive always have contents of the first drive. Even you delete contents from the first drive, backup drive will always have them.
When you press the button it copies new files from first drive to backup drive. Guess what it does if first drive is empty? Taking space of your ram by running at back ground thats all.
@@CagdasMonster937 "Mirror" syncs deletes. You are describing "update."
Just turn off the deletion sync.
Year late I know.
Your voice is so amazingly chillaxing.
I'd love his voice. This gives me peace while Linus's voice gives me cancer.
There's no denying that from anyone
He could be talking about taking over the world and destroying many nations, but I wouldn't care because of the way he talks lol :)
press the bootin!
i hate this voice, it's like i dont khow
I would recommend "update" mode for most people, because this protects against accidental deletions. If you accidentally delete something and connect the drive to restore it, the file will be removed from the backup drive, if "mirror" mode is selected, but "update" mode will never delete files from the backup drive.
Of course this means the drive will slowly fill up with stuff you no longer want, and when it gets full you must delete stuff manually (or wipe the whole thing and back everything up again).
I use this mode and think this is a small price to pay for the extra security of your files. But I use a 3.5" external hard drive which is available in large capacities. Maybe it is not so suitable for those with 2.5" hard drives as I haven't seen a > 2 TB 2.5" drive.
This also allows the backup external drive to be used with 2 or more computers without problems :)
I wanted to thank you for doing what I consider the hard part and sourcing the items needed.
I often spend a long time figuring out which components I need with very little information about what makes one component better than another. I can burn out on a project in the research step.
Hello matt! I recently did this project on my PC now that i have a new mainboard with sata hot swap support. I used a Molex female to sata male adapter and just cutted the wire for 12v (the yellow).SO it works also with only a normal switch as long you are using a 3.5 inch drive. Many thanks for the nice content.
This was great, I used an external drive enclosure to do the same thing. Much easier and still works on the press of a button with the aforementioned security benefits.
I store all of my documents on the cloud and locally, now I have an easy local backup. Thank you for this one! First proper comment on a video too so feel the privilege ;)
Christian James-Watkins Haha, cheers for the comment ;)
Just wondering:
Can I use the hardware part of this video to mount a switch which chooses either one of my two hard drives to boot?
I mean, I have windows and linux on my computer and I would absolutely love a hardwired switch to choose the OS before I boot the system. I want to power on the system not get grumpy at the grub if it selected the operating system I didn't intend to use after taking a leak during the start-up of the system.
I know it's physically possible, but I wonder if windows allows this (linux probably does anyway). It probably does since windows can't read linux partitions so it won't know anything is missing, but you'll never know.
I know I should be careful not to flick the switch while my computer is on because hotswapping a drive with a running OS would most likely not just kill my computer, but also me and my family once the drives find out who was responsible for this.
Maybe I should connect it to the reset button so if I accidently flip the switch while the pc is on, it doesn't crash, it just forced restarts in the other OS.
Totally possible - just use a double throw switch with two poles (DP DT).
Sweet! Got a project now!
+PrimaPunchy Just to make sure that it can not be switched while power is on I would use arduino or something like it to prevent switching after the power on of 1 second. So enough time for arduino to read switch and power the the right drive and then it will ignore any switch changes till next power on. Need help I can do this.
+Mark Cisewski A easier solution could be to use one of those switch with a key and remove the key when the PC is turned on. Even if I see myself being lazy and leaving the key inserted all the time :) Maybe you can hide the switch behind a cover.
+Silvio Pelizzoli True. if you remember the key. but am am thinking 1 little chip solution. easy. I could put together in couple hours
The program with your installer works great.
For those who are using Windows8/8.1 or Windows10 you cant find the startup folder directly in the search option and in the taskmanager you cant put it in.
You have to search for "run" or press Windows-Key+R and type in %appdata% then go to roaming/microsoft/windows/startmenu/programs/startup and put a shortcut of the batchfile in there (do not move or delete the original Batch-File!).
It worked fine for me on Windows 10 Pro 64bit.
I would hesitate to say the hard drive is protected from electrical failures. If a PSU failed spectacularly enough, it could still arc through the switch to the hard drive and short it out. The same is especially true of more intense surges, particularly lightning strikes.
I guess the overall point is, the only truly secure backup is unplugged and off-site.
There is no true secure backup, The best you can do is have many backups to give your data every chance of long term survival.
Because anything can happen to any hard drive / SSD, Even if you make it out of totally indestructible deep sea proof material the drive will eventually die of life expectancy or something technical might go wrong inside.
That's why an UPS is always good to have, no intense surges and you have time to properly turn off your computer before there's no more battery on the UPS.
Not completely true. If you're mirroring across sites with a two phase commit, you're guaranteed data integrity at both ends, as it's effectively a single atomic transaction. The chances of both being wiped out simultaneously and not yourself are then so close to zero that they can be considered to be secure, unless you've a need for a PC in a post apocalyptic world. At that point, who cares. Even with something as basic as a Synology NAS that's affordable home technology, if you've two geographically remote sites and a decent internet link between them.
Unplugged and off site you say? I get a wrench and beat you with it till you tell me where it is and give me the keys to access the building. Nothing is secure dude.
Which is why discussing whether something is or isn't secure as a binary is a waste of everyone's time, and the only valuable conversations in that space are whether someone's data is sufficiently secure for their needs and budget, and how it can be made more so. The 80:20 rule makes its usual appearance too, as the conversation should always be about which 20% of the maximum amount of work someone could do produces 80% of the desired outcome
I love the way he says "button"! XD
very handy! thaks! i always forget to backup data!
Well, this might not be the so called rocket science, but nevertheless it requires specialized tools and some manual skills - while the same end result could be achieved with just using a proper software and its configuration
Although yes: the one undisputed advantage of such system is the additional layer of security, i.e. disconnection of the disk from the power grid. But at the same time this also creates a drawback of having to remember to push the button after doing any kid of important work or new data acquisition [so there goes the full automation of the process being performed totally in the background]
Great video! I usually do full partition backups.
Very slick. The only thing I'd add is to say that you should dismount the HD before turning it off, that will flush any data in the write cache and won't risk corrupting the drive by it being turned off during a write operation.
Two suggestions:
1) personally I'd prefer to use heat shrink tubing for a better wiring, also on the button
2) SATA 2.5" drives use only the 5V Supply, so if you choose a 2.5" instead of a 3.5" drive you can use any switch (even SP ones)
I could listen to you talk, forever! :D
After making sure the bewwtoon is on, lol😂
What about a one click drive eraser? You know .. for drives with 'special interest' content. Asking for friend of course.
+Andrew E
I haven't tried it but you should be able to create a .bat file that runs "format C:" (replace with the drive letter that you want to quick erase). To securely erase the data though you need a secure erase program (most of which can be run from the command line so just find out the commands and put them into a .bat file.
The problem with a secure erase though is that the computer needs time to physically overwrite the old data otherwise it can be recovered by certain programs. (If you use an ssd then all you need to overwrite is the file location database because ssd's are inherently fragmented.)
Anyway, I take no responsibility though if you accidentally erase your main hard drive.
Albino Penguin
I suppose I'm more talking about (in a semi-serious way) a physical erasing mechanism, one that might put the drive beyond use but ultimately scrambles/destroys the data such tat it can never be recovered. You see in movies, hackers dumping drives in toasters etc but really my requirement would be that the drive contents be erased totally and as quick as possible.
+Andrew E
In that case just have the button attached to a controller that controls a drill to drill a bunch of holes in the hard drive and then sandblast the drive through the holes.
Or just put the drive inside a compact crusher that crushes the drive when you press the button. These aren't complicated, especially the second option
Andrew E a button to fill random junk data to drive?
one smash :D
Guys, RAIDs should not be used for backing up data. Go to the 8:08 mark where he explains the benefits of having a backup drive that's not constantly connected to power. RAIDs are used for redundancy purposes (R = Redundant). They're useful in companies/businesses where if a drive dies or fails, the backup drive can continue to be accessible and workable without any interruption. Basically, that way companies/businesses don't have to manually unplug and replug drives if one fails.
It is nice and fun, though I think scheduled backups are easier. It is a good idea to physically disconnect the drive from the power source, however the risks of not doing so (i.e. power surge or ransomware) are minimal. Hard drives can be put into standby mode even when they are connected, in case you are worried about the noise and power consumption when the drive is unused. To hide the data from malicious software, simply unmounting the drive should be enough. I think you would be better off with Linux though - it has all the nice tools for scheduling and doing backups without the need for 3rd-party software. For example, you can use cron/anacron for scheduling backups, use rsync or btrfs-send to do the backup, then umount the backup file system, and finally, hdparm -y turns off the hard drive when it is unused. Though I understand that having a one-press button is fun, so I appreciate the work you put into it.
Super cool ideal, practically i would use external drive for this, thanks.
This was insanely useful to me , Thanks for this Video 😀
That was some really nice software you used!
And a really cool mod too!
Subscribing to this channel is paying off again ;D
Not only does it protect the drive when its physically disconnected form the power supply in case the power supply goes bad, it also doesn’t toil the hard drive in the same way, compared with the other hard drives in the system, because its only powered on during the backup. ;)
Fantastic idea for on/off switch for internal drive! And great guide in general.
What if I used a clapper circuit instead of a button?
Genius idea *clap clap clap*
"Backup initiated"
Oh shit, not again.
You'd have a backup start whenever you watch the start of F.R.I.E.N.D.S :D
Dave hahaha. I just recently watched all ten seasons. Good stuff :) Princess Consuela Banana Hammock
@@dave3196 Underrated comment!
You'd get a backup every time you do 👏meme👏review
Awesome mode. will do that to my office PC...Love your videos you make it seem so simple
Man, your videos are so much professional! I love it!!
I'd recommend RAID 1 instead. It will mirror the entire system (including the operating system) which would mean that the user would gain fault tolerance for the entire system instead of just documents and it would give a performance increase, not a decrease
Hey matt I think it's your first time add BG music in your video
Not bad for the first time
This is quite satisfying to watch.
I LIKE ALL YOUR VIDEOS.
I CAN RECOMMEND YOU THAT FOR HISPANIC SPEAKING YOU PLACE SUBTITLES IN SPANISH SINCE WE SEE YOU FROM COLOMBIA. HUGS AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHING
You should have shown a wiring diagram, it was a bit hard to understand what you meant. But now i get it, you simply switch both the 5v and 12v supply to the hdd with a double pole switch...
Very nice including and not limited to Excellent and a perfect solution! Very nicely done!
Don't forget about voltage surges through GND during storm :P You should use 3-channel switch to be sure enough about "electrical connection" that you mension in video...
+Cezary Rodziewicz Almost any half decent power supply in the last 5 years should protect against that, you should check the product info. But you're probably right, for an extra bit of security a 3 channel is probably a good idea.
I just normally store important files on the cloud. The only problem is downloading them due to their huge sizes.
Seems cool, might try this software on my external hdd when it arrives.
Is it ok to turn off the HDD power source? Because usually it makes the emergency park sound, andd I think it's not good
Philippe52 Yes, it's fine. External HDD enclosures wouldn't have hard switches on them if it wasn't.
DIY Perks that's not quite true. External HDDs usually work with a USB-to-SATA controller that parks the HDD when the user stops accessing it and the system usually syncs all data immediately and doesn't keep some of it in the cache. If you hard-switch it off, that bit in the cache might become lost, which is definitely not desireable in a backup solution.
pcfreak1992 Usually, perhaps, but there are plenty of commercial HDD enclosures out there that just use a physical switch to turn the HDD on and off, just like in the video. :) Besides, drives are designed to be able to write all their cache to the platters in the case of a power failure, so it's not too much of an issue. Any files that failed to be transferred (if for some reason the drive was to be turned off whilst the backup process was going on) they'd just be re-copied next time the backup is run.
DIY Perks well since those commercial HDD enclosures utilize that mentioned USB controller and Windows (usually) doesn't use the cache on external drives, it is not a big deal, that's right. But if you use the drive internally then it's a different story, since there is no USB controller and Windows is actually using a cache for speed increase. And if the hard drive was writing on the file allocation table you might lose all info about all the stored files. And there is no way for a drive to write the cache to disk when it detects a power failure (some drives have caches up to 64 MB).
If you are lucky nothing happens or only the last file becomes corrupt. If you aren't lucky then all files are gone and the drive possibly even needs to be re-formatted. The best way to work with this hardware solution is to manually deactivate the cache in Windows and wait for a few minutes until Windows manually parks the head (or maybe run a script which does that after the backup).
In my opinion the last thing you wanna do is to let your backup drive do constant emergency parks. ;-)
It's a nice tutorial and great idea, but just like pcfreak1992 I have my doubts about turning off the HDD without unmounting it.
Freaking awesome, I love it, thanks for sharing it can you make another video how to used the back up that is done and restoring it.
Very nice idea, congratulations!
Why are you so genius?
FreeFileSync supports Linux! That's heartwarming.
Why not soldering the LED directly on 12v and 5v?
And calculate the resistor for 7v to what the LED needs?
So in this case you can leave the black wire as it is and you have less solder joins
SPST = Single Pole Single Throw
SPTT = Single Pole Triple Throw
DPDT = Double Pole Double Throw
I know this is about DIY, but I'd probabally use a USB drive with a USB extender with an ON/OFF switch (which I already have).
If you've ever used Time-Machine, you know that making backups is not a worry anymore.
I might missed my coffee today, so my brain goes in limb mode ( :) ) and just wondering. (Although I might figure it out in a while)...
Why do you need that kind of switch?
If You push the button, you connect the yellow power?, and the button is deactivated...is the red (5v) still connected?, and why?
Or perhaps I need that coffee now. hehe.
Thanks so much for inspiration for DIY. Have ordered a lot and gonna start building stuff soon (ebay-delivery)... :)
wow, thank you for your tipps and videos, a lot to learn :)
great video man
That whole button setup is unnecessary. You should always be backing up. It's easier to just connect a regular hard drive into the computer, install that software and have it running all the time. Then EVERY file you save or delete will ALWAYS be backed up with not additional effort.
DoomFinger511 the problem is that if you have a Ransomware on your computer it will also encrypt your backed up files, but if your backup HD was powered off the Ransomware wouldn't do anything to your backup HD, so the button is not just to make you remember to backup your file, it's also giving you a layer of protection against Ransomware and other kind of viruses that destroy any data that is connected to your computer.
This is a great idea! But, I would rather keep my data on a home server. What would an alternative be?
I lost all of my data from a drive issue, lol, but my laptop was unusable to add this thou, so there goes everything. Should have made the laptop one, but I didn't/couldn't.
i think this is a great idea but you need to eject the hard disk before pushing the button as it is bad for the drive
Nice useful video ! Thank you much!
Amazing! May I ask if you majored in something related? I mean, did you study electronics or computer science formally? Just curiosity and to inspire others! :D
Backing up to a hard drive which is INSIDE the computer is not useless, but it is pretty close! If something happens to the computer itself, be it a power surge or fire or a flood or whatever, both the main drive and the backup drive will die together. Backups should be stored on an external device, which is to be disconnected from the computer and stored in a different location, meaning another room or ideally not in the same building.
The point is that the drive is physically disconnected 98% of the time. This protects it from power surges, PSU failures, ransom ware etc. Pretty good for most people.
DIY Perks Agree!! backing up process is usefull for the C partition in case of cash of the operative system or during the reinstalation of the system...
should have used it himself 😅😄
Too soon
seen this video and thought "oh the irony"
What happened?
@@SlavTiger he had a hard drive failure and lost a ton of footage
@@vintyprod NGL that's pretty funny.
This was really intriguing, until you told me that i needed to run another program on startup. I deliberately disable everything not imminently essential on startup, to speed up boot times and clear CPU. Guess i'll just stick to manual backups...
Sweet vid though!
Super cool project. Looks cool/fun to make. Not that usefull for me since i use a virtual desktop at work and at home i have only video games installed.(and i backup those saves automaticly software-based) You are the collest diy video maker on yt. I hope that your channel grows really big but plz dont turn into I_like_to_make_things. Bob is a hack who sold his channel out. Just keep it like how its now. (im not saying earning money from youtube is a bad thing but his vids. used to be as much fun as yours are now, not anymore)
About data:
data will get lost on a unpowered hdd. (even tho not running will be better on the short term, i will try to find the video where i got it from tomorrow if you are interested)
That why for serious user they use LTO bachup/archive tape drive , once recorded the tape can last up to 40 year
+Stylo Monnik With a magnetic hard drive, data loss occurs slowly whether the drive is powered or not, the real concern is with the bearing in the motor seizing up if it isn't used for a few months. SSDs on the other hand do not lose data at all when power is applied, but likewise slowly lose it when unplugged.
Awesome tip, thank you so much.
Can I use a script instead of the software he used? Don't really trust random software, especially ones that try to install random adware.
I was thinking the same thing.
Can i have instructions on how to make a script please? i feel the same
+Ryan Bright There are several options. A good one for beginners would be autohotkey. It could literally be one line of FileCopyDir, [source], [destination], [overwrite?0or1]. But of course you can add more over time to make it more powerful & complex.
He also provided a adware free one. but do what you want
+Peter The point is that you know exactly what your made script is doing. The same can't be said for 3rd part software.
Cutting off power to a hard drive is never a good idea. you could louse data if you mistime it.
the cathode is the positive pole not the negative one ;)
What if something happens and you loose a part of your data on your normal drive, and you want to get the data back from the back up drive. You can't just push the button and connect the drive because then the data you lost on the normal drive would also be removed from the back up drive...
+SwaggerBoyNL1234 DIsable the batch script until you have restored it.
+Nicholas Festa Noooo! I don't have enough wisdom for this! (What is a batch script? I'm a noob :))
+Nicholas Festa Never mind, I already understand you. It's actually pretty simple haha, but thanks.
+SwaggerBoyNL1234 batch script is a list of commands writtin in a file normally like .bat extension. So you can run this file and it does each command line by line that you put in the file. like a text file telling you 1 do this 2 do that 3 do this.
+Mark Cisewski Ah okay thx
Clever project.
Thanks for excellent video, I use it for the RAID 5 network drive and it's brilliant. Plus with RAID 5 I also get a fault tolerance for 1 failed drive.
I perfer having it run as a scheduled task, FreeFileSync does have a guide for this, that said, wonder if i possible to use an autorun.inf, especially since i believe FreeFileSync can be ran as a portable app
thank you. it helps a lot man!
Use a key switch and protect data
IF I choose the Mirror option, how does it handle multiple backups, does it overwrite all files, or only copy new/modified files?
instead of leaving the program run on the background which i wont recommend, create a autorun config file in the backup disk to run the batch file automatically as you plugged in.
I may do this when I build my gaming pc in the future
intro = dankpods
Thanks for the inspiration, I am now going to try to DIY something on my PC.
You know the aircraft-style missile launching flip switches? I am modding one of those as the backup button :)
Is there a little problem with the mirror mode? Look: I press the button and the backup is made. A little later I accidentally delete an important file. No big deal, I have it in the backup hard drive. But if I connect the drive for recovery the data, it will be automatically mirrored from the drive that doesn't have the file. You would say: Of course you have to disable the auto-backup, but you have to REALLY pay attention to this, otherwise the meaning of backup is not achieved. If someone wants to recovery the file right away, most people may not remember to do that... Maybe one of the others modes is safer.
May I be so free and recommend a step drill for such tasks as drilling holes in sheets.
thank you a lot of you all waht you doing i am sorry but my english is not so more inproving and i want understand how you did with your external hard drive and in finaly i did not understand the things of USB and the other board !!
And thank you for you doing and sharing all !!!!! sometime i do not understand all cause my english i home i ll can reproduce some things of your tutorial !!!
how it s coming on you all that idea ?????????
Nice. I just use always connected hard drive and Synkron software which backups everything in background every period that I have set up :)
i really like ur vifeo can u tell the soundtrack name if your video 2:16-4:10
Brilliant vid, m8
Hey DIY Perks, is it possible to reverse the data stream and make it so that every time you plug the hard drive in, it dumps all the data from that drive onto a similar folder. For instance if you wanted to make it so every time you plug in an sd card, it dumps all the picture files into a folder on your computer?
I am always amazed at how clean your projects come out looking. The videos are also always really nice.
I would need like 70 tb to backup all my stuff
My pc has like 70tb and I have 30gb free
Use a 24-7 connected Arduino to turn it to turn on for 10 mins, then make a shortcut of that single function.
Music title at 2:50?Not Darude:)
How about a link to the SATA extension cable. The ones we have found include an additional orange wire - 5 wires total. Prefer Amazon if you can.
This is kind of good idea. But I still prefere using small free utility called RevoSleep, that allows me to put two backup drives to sleep and wake them up on demand by single click on taskbar icon near the clock. Rest of the config is exactly the same as shown here.
Completely over the top, but I subscribed and liked as I loved the presentation and idea behind it :)
I love the way you say button!
Very Nice idea.
I have follow your video step step to my own pc. I have used an old 2,5" 1TB HDD and have changed the bios options to hot plug. But now i have one problem. The Backup HDD loses his drive-letter. Everytime i start my pc i have to give the HDD an new drive-Letter, but the old letter is no more available.
Hope you have an idea or a quick solution.
Thanks for your great videos ;-)
Can you make diy iCloud/ google drive?
I have like 5 old harddisk just laying not being used but I would like to have a personal own iCloud
the good old days when drive bays were still common on pcs
also this video was released some months before windows 10 released
we can secure it in, using its... newt 2:03
LOL....sorry that sounded funny
I use MS Synctoy 2.1 still works.
Or you can just install an other HDD in Raid1
And control it with Matrix Storage Manager 5.0 From intel or MediaShield Storage 5.10 from Nvidia for nForce chipsets
I just love the way he says the word button XD URNEBES
Your videos make me feel warm and relaxed
s is what i've been waiting for :) time to watch
This guy is Macgyver!! Amazing!
I do not really like your approach as it might harm your drive.
DP, which stands for .....
yes, double-pole
I was looking for this comment. LMAO!