The HDD on my work laptop crashed over the weekend - started with CRC errors and then went kaboom (not literally). While our IT folks are trying to recover the data off it as I type this, I wanted to know if you can recommend a cheap or free tool for backing up? I of course did not have the latest backups of my files - I use to till about a year ago and got lazy. This of course is a lesson learned the hard way ☹️.

The couple of tools that come to mind are something like either SyncToy or robocopy , does anyone else have a recommendation?