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Advice Please: Building Simple "Back-up" System
I'm going to attempt to put together a system that will use a
mirroring application for backing up. The system will have three drives of equal size in the main case.(And if I go SCSI, three more in an external case will be used for less important data storage). The main three will all start out as identical, with the operating system and the needed software installed. From there, the "E" drive will remain untouched for the most part except on those rare occasions where a new app will need be installed, but only after it has been used for a while on my main working "C" drive. However, the "C" drive will be mirrored to the "D" drive on a weekly basis. So, basically, all my work will be done on the "C" drive, with occasional back-ups to the "D" drive. And "E" will only be used to to bring the "C" drive back to it's original state in case anything goes seriously wrong. Question #1: Whether on or off the internet, will Windows normally write to drives "D" and "E", even though I'm doing all my work on "C"? Question #2: If so, can this be stopped? Will it require having the ability to power down drives "D" and "E", even when the system is on? And is this possible if all drives are in the same case? Question 3: Can I get recommendations on which mirroring app is best for what I want to do? I've narrowed it down to "Drive Image", and "True Image", but are there any programs like these that can be run from a floppy or CD, without having to install anything? P.S.: I have some RAID hardware, but I realized that complexity makes RAID a non-option. So since I already have SCSI hardware, I just may stick with that. Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York. |
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