Backup help

[Art]

 I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus formatted to NTFS with a GPT (to handle drives larger than 2TB).
Since you said you could see the files from the first machine, the data was likely there. If you cannot see any files on the same drive from the second machine, I'd get another Windows 10 machine to see if it can read any files on the same drive. If not,the "WinDrive" is suspect.
BTW, I also have a 2TB drive powered by the USB port - that device occasionally fails if the host cannot  power the drive, i.e., the port can't handle the 500 mA peak demand from the drive, so it disconnects and the data corrupts. It's a nuisance, but it works most of the time. I generate checksums for my critical files so I can just destroy corrupt files and get another copy (I keep three copies of all my critical stuff).

- Art
    On Friday, September 15, 2017, 7:21:13 PM EDT, Roger Oliver <roger at olivermx.net> wrote:  
 
 Windows 7 and 10. Mostly interested in a backup copy off the main computer in case it crashes. Mine did, the Windows 10 machine. All my GC data was restored from the Carbonite backup. Grateful it worked. The 7 machine is at the school dedicated to accounting. I think there is something wrong with the WinDrive external hard drive. Thanks!
On Sep 15, 2017 6:08 PM, "Art" <pinaart at yahoo.com> wrote:

 What are the OSes on the source and target computers?What is the external hard disk filesystem and how do you know it's compatible with both computers?

I assume you are able to run GC on both computers, hence the point of copying the db to the second one. E.g., I routinely archive my db from my Ubuntu 17.04 machine to a 5TB USB drive so I can restore it to my Windows 10 laptop when I'm on the road and vice versa to sync my backup repository.

- Art
    On Friday, September 15, 2017, 6:13:36 PM EDT, Roger Oliver <roger at olivermx.net> wrote:  
 
 I can't seem to get the GnuCash files to back up to an external hard disk.
The files show that they are there but when I try to find them on another
computer to have a copy off site, the files are not there. What am I doing
wrong? Thanks, Roger Oliver

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