[quote=whiteballz;908282]You only have a 4Gb backup?[/quote]
Yep! I am a great enemy of too much technology. Life should be simple. :)
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[quote=whiteballz;908282]You only have a 4Gb backup?[/quote]
Yep! I am a great enemy of too much technology. Life should be simple. :)
[quote=G35COUPE;908577]Yep! I am a great enemy of too much technology. Life should be simple. :)[/quote]
and press shots can be up to 100 mb each, that's the problem.
[quote=LeonOfTheDead;908625]and press shots can be up to 100 mb each, that's the problem.[/quote]
This is true. My rule of thumb is, if the file cannot be sent through Yahoo or Hotmail----5 GB max, then the file is too large and complicated, and so i don't want to have anything to do with the file.
My beleif is that technology was made for man, and not man made for technology.
You probably just need 2 drives of equal size. If 1TB is big enough to hold all of your information then just get two 1TB drives. Use the first drive, C:, as the primary drive with all your files including OS. Then use the second drive, D:, as the back-up drive.
You could setup a simple batch file to copy all the files from the C: drive to the D: using the XCOPY command, assuming you are running windows.
I use it at work to back up data from multiple drives. In your case something simple like this would probably work:
[code]XCOPY "C:\" "D:\" /I /D /E /Y[/code]
You can make this batch file by creating a text file, copy in the code above and save the file. Then rename it to *.bat, and it will be executable.
I have mine setup so that it runs every time I start the computer. Or you can just run it manually when you want to do the back-up. If you open the command prompt and type "XCOPY /?" it will give you the full list of options. But the code I provided will basically backup only the files that have changed since the last back-up.
As long as both drives don’t fail at the same time you will always have a copy of the files.
robocopy is greater than xcopy, as you can set it to only copy files that have been edited. Also it has a better name. If you have XP you'll have to install it, a bit of googling ought to turn it up.
[code]robocopy d:\ x:\ /E /R:3 /W:3 /TEE /PURGE[/code]
That'll sync d: to x:, retrying upon failures but continuing past them. It'll also delete files that are on x: but not d:.
[quote=pimento;908714]robocopy is greater than xcopy, as you can set it to only copy files that have been edited.[/quote]
Robocopy does have more advanced features, but fyi the "/D" switch with XCOPY can be used to copy only files that have changed since the last back-up.
[quote=Alastor;908739]Robocopy does have more advanced features, but fyi the "/D" switch with XCOPY can be used to copy only files that have changed since the last back-up.[/quote]
So it does.. I wonder why I wasn't using that way back when. Thanks for the info!