Few people take the ten minutes it takes to back up their files with a backup program before they have experienced the accident once first. Now there is no excuse to wait until the family photos have been deleted due to a defective hard drive and more. We have found a free backup program that can be set to back up your important files on an ongoing basis - completely automatically.
The program is called Cobian Backup and is freeware. You can start by downloading Cobian Backup here. Now it needs to be installed. During installation, you can select the language. Here is the opportunity to choose Danish, so do this with advantage.
Now you have installed the backup program and you are thus ready to create a backup task in the program. To do this, click on the icon marked in the image below:

The following window will now appear:

Here is the only thing you need to change the name if you feel like it. The other settings are as they should be, unless you have special backup requirements.
On the left side you can select "File". Here, in the top window (Off), select the files and folders to be backed up. You can drag the files and folders over from another window / pathfinder, or use the built-in function "Add". Once you have selected the files to be backed up, select the location of the backup. Again, you can drag a folder over from another window / pathfinder in which the backup must be placed, otherwise you can use the built-in "Add" function. You place the folder in which the backup is to be saved in the lower window (On).
Now you can move on to the next item on the left which is the "Schedule". Here you can choose when and how often Cobian Backup should back up your selected files. You can e.g. choose weekly, Friday at 17:00. Then the program backs up your selected files every Friday at 17:00 (Remember to have your computer on at the specified time).
Then you can select the item "File" on the left. Here it is a good idea to choose "ZIP compression". This means that the program saves your backup packaged in a compressed.zip file. That way, your backup does not take up so much space.
You can choose to encrypt the backup below as well. This means that unauthorized persons cannot access the backup. Select e.g. "Blowfish" and add a password that you can remember. The cursor to the left of the password indicates how strong, or weak, your password is. See the picture below:

Now you can click OK, then your important files are secured completely free and automatically in the future. Finally, it is important to place the backup on a different drive than the one you are backing up. That way, the backup is secured if that drive breaks. An obvious option is to place the backup on an external drive that is secured against burglary and fire, so that your files are also secured under these circumstances. Enjoy!
Note: If the files you want to back up take up several gigabytes, then the backup process can take a very long time if you have chosen to both compress and encrypt. Choose on and off according to temperament.