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ok, simple question that i havent gotten a lot of help on. where can i get a program that will automatically backup one of my hard drives to another hard drive daily? i have two an 80gig that i need to backup daily to another 80 gig. thanks
not sure, try doing a HD backup search on google.
now that i thought about it there is a backup utility that comes with windows 2000, but does anyone know if its a good program to use?
toastedzergling
07-25-02, 11:29 AM
You can get a Raid card and do Raid 1
toastedzergling
07-25-02, 11:35 AM
or here:
http://www.stompinc.com/bump/bump-retail.phtml?stp
With a little programming you could use the windows scheduler to execute a script that fires up Norton Ghost to make an image of the main disk and store it on the second disk.
naa, i dont have progamming skills. but the other link zergling gave me was good. thanks man
Ghost would be marginal for daily backups, since it'd have to be booted into DOS daily to backup the data. As a weekly solution, it would be more manageable. RAID-1 had been mentioned, and is probably the easiest solution to maintain and though it sacrifices some speed, you would not need to reserve the third drive for backups. The same holds true for RAID-0+1, but you'd have to buy one more drive. The Windows backup utility is not to be completely trusted, I've heard of people losing data with it. What I would do is use Ghost or Drive Image on a weekly basis and keep my working set of data in a directory or set of directories, make a batch file to copy the directories to the other drive and use Task Scheduler to run the batch file on a periodic or timed basis. This way the image can be restored quickly, and any additional files can simply be copied over to the restored drive.
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