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Hello Sigstroker,
I use "SystemGuardian" from www.duocor.com - it makes a bootable clone
of your primary drive and if the primary dies the backup starts and
runs right off. I've had one primary die and this thing is GOLD!
I believe it will do what you ask, ie. backup to new larger drive and
allow swapping out of backup drives. If your primary takes a dump it
will automatically boot off of the backup which then becomes the
primary, and you can then replace the 'old' primary at your leisure.
Their support is pretty good - give 'em a call. Cost if I remember
right was around $150. I'm pleased I bought it! (No connection, etc)
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Best regards,
Ross mail to: Ross.Bond@xxxxxxxxxx
Thursday, February 26, 2004, 8:33:09 AM, you wrote:
Sac> I'm looking for a piece of software to do a bit-for-bit
Sac> copy from one disk to another. I don't want "backup" software
Sac> that compresses using the vendor's proprietary algorithm so that
Sac> you need to use the software to "restore". I have two things I
Sac> want to do:
Sac> 1) My C drive is filling up. I want to copy it to a larger drive
Sac> and swap them out.
Sac> 2) I want to make periodic copies of my C drive to drives
Sac> in removable drawers for backup. If the C drive in the pc takes a
Sac> dump, I want to just pull the most recent backup out of it's
Sac> drawer and swap it into the pc.
Sac> Obviously neither of the above will work if the copy/clone
Sac> is compressed with some weird algorithm. I bought Drive Image,
Sac> but it appears to only make the kind of backup I don't want. I
Sac> would assume the software I need would have to run in DOS off a
Sac> bootable floppy. So far, everything I've looked at seems to run
Sac> in Windows.
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