Forseti, Many thanks for taking the time to explain the cautionary note re Syncback. I downloaded easily as you said and tried a dummy run using manual and sync backups to both a a spare partition on my drive and one with some files on. As you pointed out it is easy to get screwed up and I am most grateful to you for taking the time and trouble to explain this. That said it looks as though it is everything I have been looking for . Thanks again and a very happy new year to you ( and all the Photoradar forum users!) from
A very cold Dagwood!