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mirror raid is not a backup solution. Anything you screw up on the storage device (delete important files and such) is immediately unrecoverable. And as others already addressed it's not safe to put...
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I have to agree with the external, in fact I do backups to 2 externals because I have had both the pc and one of the externals (the dreaded old 1.5 tb silver seagate click of death drives) fail on me...
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BINGO ! No truer words have been spoken.
Everyone deletes something that they later wish they hadn't, be it by accident or a moment of folly (or whatever).
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Thanks, I did not know about mirroring, seems like same as keeping drives in sync. I've often thought of doing RAID, but I think if I ever go that way, I'll try this instead. That may be a viable...
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thanks for everyone's advice. external does seem to make the most sense.
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Microsoft Synctoy. Free, easy to use.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155
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If you're trying to make F the same as E, the most hands off way is software mirroring. Windows Servers have supported this a long time, and I know 7 supports this feature. Less sure about XP and...
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I like Easeus Todo Backup, I found out about it a couple of years ago, it has since become a very popular download at cnet, free version does a lot more too these days....
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Personally, I don't like my backups attached to anything. I have had a couple of lightning strikes that fried a system, even on a UPS. So if it were me I would put that extra 2 TB drive in an...
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I agree with the above, buy an external case for F drive, I had a PSU go and took my mobo and half my hard drives.
Personally I used syncback a while ago and it worked well. You could use...
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These days, you almost have to. The price one can pay for losing data forever is too costly and painful, be it precious pictures, your lifetime music collection, or important documents.
If you don't...
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I agree, you can't be too careful. You read all those horror stories of new families losing all the pics and vids of their little ones. I finally got a new PC a year ago, my old PC had suffered...
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I also do an occasional manual backup on one drive (more like quarterly or half yearly :( ) and use backup software and the second drive with frequent incremental backups to the second drive for file...
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Windows batch script...
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I do the 2nd drive manually (the backup to the backup) from time to time, perhaps once a month, and I keep it in the safe to prevent it from getting knocked around or stolen, plus on the off chance...
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This is all in my htpc case.
C: 64gb ssd with windows and all programs
E: 2tb seagate (storage)
F: 2tb seagate (backup of storage)
Is there an easy way to backup everything i put into the E:...
