how do u backup a hard drive with onedrive?

Question

i was wondering if there's a way to have onedrive installed on 2 drives at the same time?

Answer 1

As of now, Microsoft OneDrive does not natively support installing or syncing to two different drives simultaneously on the same machine. OneDrive is designed to sync with a single local directory, which can be located on one specific drive.

However, You can use symbolic links (symlinks) to create a connection between directories on different drives. This way, OneDrive believes it is syncing to a single directory, but the actual data is spread across multiple drives.

Steps:

1. Set Up OneDrive on Primary Drive:
   • Install OneDrive and set up the sync folder on your primary drive (e.g., C:\OneDrive).
2. Create a Directory on the Secondary Drive:
   • Create a directory on your secondary drive where you want to sync some of your OneDrive data (e.g., D:\OneDriveSecondary).
3. Create Symbolic Links:
   • Use the mklink command to create symbolic links for the folders or files you want to sync to the secondary drive.

   
      mklink /d C:\OneDrive\SecondaryFolder D:\OneDriveSecondary
   
   

   This command creates a symbolic link named SecondaryFolder in the OneDrive directory on the primary drive, pointing to the directory on the secondary drive.

Example:

mklink /d C:\OneDrive\Photos D:\OneDriveSecondary\Photos