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  • How does the loose usb dongle factor in? Does the drive get disconnected & subsequently corrupts it's filesystem? Maybe a more robust filesystem or settings would better help. And does xcopy only copy changed files, like rsync? Or changed parts of big files? Could be a lot of copying otherwise
    – Xen2050
    Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 10:22
  • sorry for the typo: I just put a 'extra' o
    – DDS
    Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 10:32
  • I just copy all the files each time... It's a personal pendrive I take with me with few important text files so copying all is feasable. Eventually I'll manually delete un-needed directories
    – DDS
    Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 10:49
  • You could try USBDLM, it's a very handy utility and will exactly suit in your case
    – montonero
    Commented Feb 25, 2019 at 11:41