Can you help me figure out an easy way to save things from my desktop to an outside source on a daily basis? (More info inside).

(I’m not sure I asked this correctly.)

Here is my issue. My workplace stores all work in the cloud/web drive. I work from my desktop and save things that need to be saved to the web drive manually, but many things on my desktop do not need to be saved on the web drive—templates, drafts, charts, for example.

If something happens to my computer there would be no way to retrieve what is on my desktop. Many things I can store on a thumb drive, like templates, but many of the charts that I save to my desktop are changed everyday.

What I want to do is be able to work and save things that I usually save on my desktop without having to save them on the web drive.

At home I have an external drive for all my music and I use it by having my iTunes open from the drive. Maybe something like this could work, but I don’t need a whole external drive. Or maybe I can work from a thumb drive. What I do not want to do is have to save everything to some other device daily. That’s just a pain in the ass.

Am I clear? Do you understand what I’m trying to get across?

Any ideas?