Backing up
Four ways to copy. One that fits.
Full, incremental, differential or mirror. Open files included. Small files packed.
Which type, and when.
Most people want incremental. The wizard explains each type as you choose.
Full
Everything, every time. Simplest to restore.
Incremental
Only what changed. Smallest and fastest.
Differential
All changes since the full. Two sets at most to restore.
Mirror
An exact copy of the source. No older versions.
Open files
The file you still have open is copied too.
A Windows snapshot at the start of the run catches files Outlook, browsers and databases hold open.
Needs administrator rights, or the Windows service. Anything skipped is listed in the run report.
OneDrive and Google Drive
Even the files that live only in the cloud.
Windows keeps older OneDrive files online-only. GBM AI downloads each one, backs it up, and gives the space back.
Downloaded
Just for the backup, keeping 2 GB free on the drive.
Backed up
Like any other file, to a drive you own.
Online-only again
The space comes back. Your PC ends where it started.
Google Drive’s G: drive is backed up like any other. Incremental backups download only what changed; a full backup downloads it all again. Offline, the report lists what could not be fetched and the next run gets it. A switch in Settings turns it off.
Compression
Smaller on the drive.
Off, Balanced or Max, per job. Identical files are stored once in each set.
AES-256 encryption per job, from Home. A lost password cannot be recovered.
Thousands of small files. No penalty.
Small files are packed together, so the drive writes a few large files instead.
6.5×
faster, for thousands of small files
20,200 small files to a USB 3 hard disk: 40 s packed, 260 s one by one.
A fast SSD closes the gap.
Tested at scale
Five million files. One backup.
Backed up, restored, and every file compared byte for byte.
5,000,000
files in one backup set
0
files different after the full restore
4 min
for the next run, with nothing changed
5 s
to bring back one file of the five million
Five million 1 KB files, with small-file packing on and off, on a Surface Laptop: Snapdragon X2 Elite, 32 GB, NVMe SSD. GBM AI 10.0.49.
Pick folders. Or pick what you mean.
Smart items know where your things live. Or just tell Genie what matters.
Folders and files
Browse this PC, or type a path. Shares too.
Smart items
Documents, Pictures, Desktop, your whole profile.
Apps and browsers
Outlook, browser profiles, save games, Obsidian and more.
Code folders
Your .gitignore, offered as rules. node_modules stays home.
Filters
Leave out what you never wanted.
Eight ready-made sets and eight kinds of rule. Test them before you save.
- Presets for temp files, caches, node_modules and more
- Exclude or include by name, extension, path, size, date or attribute
- A tester runs them over a real folder, writing nothing
Back something up today.
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