backed up to the external hard drive attached to the computer. a program called ... simple sync is set up for user alex. it has 3 tasks, one for each day's worth of failsafe. task one copies from the main drive to the backup, task two copies from the backup to a second place on the backup. task three copies from the second place on the backup to a third. These tasks are run by the schedular program(sort of). There is a batch file in the directory which is backed up which runs the three tasks in reverse order (3,2,1) so that we have three days of previous work. The schedular calls that batch file every day at 530pm. IMPORTANT, for this simple sync setup to work the user who runs the batch script MUST be the one who created the tasks in simple sync.