Re: Automatically Duplicate 2 Internal Drives

Wandering

True Image at least will also "clone" a disk. Creating a bootable copy of
the original on a second disk. The problem comes when you leave it in and
reboot. You have to remove the clone before rebooting, and then exchange
drives when you want to run the clone. But it is just a drive swap, and
there is no "restore" involved.

Maybe this will help. Good luck.


"Don Cohen" <doncohen@'lens-cap'.alltel.net> wrote in message
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> "Curious" <mailmenot@nomail.com> wrote in message
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>> You might consider a non raid system and set up a backup program to back
>> up from one drive to the other on a regular basis.
>> Even Raid 1 systems can be unrecoverable if the OS writes corrupt data to
>> both drive at once.
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> Actually, that's exactly what I'm wanting to do. My post here is to get
> advice on what backup program to use, that will work the way I want it to.
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> Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost will create images of the drive, which
> can then be restored. But that's different from simply having all the
> files copied and available (including the OS files) on the 2nd hard drive.
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> Traditional back-up programs will copy files, but won't really allow OS
> files to be copied since they're in use.
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> Are there backup type programs that will effectively make the 2nd HD a
> full duplicate of the primary HD, so that if the primary HD fails, I can
> just plug it in where the failed drive was, boot from it, and be back to
> work right away? (I would then purchase/install a replacement HD.)
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> Don
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