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    Quote Originally Posted by whiteballz View Post
    You only have a 4Gb backup?
    Yep! I am a great enemy of too much technology. Life should be simple.

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    Quote Originally Posted by G35COUPE View Post
    Yep! I am a great enemy of too much technology. Life should be simple.
    and press shots can be up to 100 mb each, that's the problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeonOfTheDead View Post
    and press shots can be up to 100 mb each, that's the problem.
    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.

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    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:

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    XCOPY "C:\" "D:\" /I /D /E /Y
    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.
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."

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    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
    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:.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pimento View Post
    robocopy is greater than xcopy, as you can set it to only copy files that have been edited.
    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.
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alastor View Post
    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.
    So it does.. I wonder why I wasn't using that way back when. Thanks for the info!

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