File History vs OneDrive: Backup content/Frequency/Destination…

This article created onMiniTool official websitecompares two Windows data protection utilities, OneDrive and File History.

It covers 5 aspects of their differences and helps you know them better.

Just read the below content.

What Is File History?

What Is OneDrive?

Together withGoogle Drive and Dropbox, they are the three most popular cloud drives.

Do you use OneDrive backup?

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Yet, there are still some differences.

The source is also the sync copy and the sync copy is also the source.

Also, you are able to synchronize selected folders to OneDrive cloud, Desktop, Document, or Pictures.

As for protecting local files/folders, it seems that File History covers much more content than OneDrive.

OneDrive provides real-timecontinuous data protectionwhile the highest File History backup frequency can only be every 10 minutes.

For OneDrive, the backup target location is set.

If you sync from a local computer, you might only save the copy in your OneDrive cloud.

How to set up Windows 10/11 File History backup options in Windows controls?

How about in Control Panel?

Is there an alternative to File History options?

It reflects the changes immediately from the source side to the destination side.

Thus, there is only one copy of the source files in the destination and its always up-to-date.

For File History, things are different and there do have different copies of the source files.

The backup version of both OneDrive and File History will become larger and larger.

Yet, both of the two data protection services enable you to manage backup versions to save destination space.

Otherwise, you will only see the files list on your system.

So, you dont have to select any other local folder to sync.

Moreover, clear out the files you dont want to sync anymore can also save you some storage space.

If you cant restore lost or damaged files from their backups, the backups worth nothing!

Usually, the very last image version will be selected since its the closest version to the lost files.

And, you’re able to select to only restore some of the files/folders.

As for OneDrive, there is no file restoration since its a real-time synchronization.

There is a third-party program namedMiniTool ShadowMakerthat inherits the pros and avoids some cons of OneDrive and File History.

It adds more backup frequencies generally includingdaily, weekly, monthly, and on a special event.

), as well as connection locations (NAS or shared storage space).