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I don't know the advantages (if any) of using mirroring software or what
overhead you might encounter by forcing live real-time back-ups, but I
assume it would be substantial and would also degrade the speed and
performance of your overall system -- not to mention the questionable
necessity of live "on-the fly" mirroring in the real world.
You can easily back-up a hard-drive periodically, on command, by using a
simple DOS command like:
C:\windows\command\xcopy32.exe C:\*.* D:\ /m /s /e
You would need to replace the C: and D: references with whatever is
appropriate for your system. This command will back-up the entire hard-drive
on the first run, then only the files that have changed on subsequent runs.
(Be sure to run it without any other programs active).
You could restore Directories/Folders selectively (or the entire drive)
using Copy/Paste (or Drag & Drop) in Windows .
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At 05:48 PM 7/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>RE: Backups, Mirroring, & Raid
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>The costs for a mirroring setup involve an extra hard drive and the
>mirroring controller. I don't have specific costs for the controller
>The concept is that you have two hard drives, let's say partitioned as
>drives C & D. Both drives are set up identically and contain EXACTLY
>the same information. So, if you save a file to the D drive, the
>mirroring controller automatically saves the data to the D partition
>and the same subdirectories on both physical drives.
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