Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The failed drive is on a almost-always-on photo system. There's another 3 TB WD driver there that's a couple years older and a mostly new SSD. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > Robocopy has been around for some time, very useful. > > Is this failed drive used 24/7 or spun up/down quite often? I use > enterprise disks (some were still working after 8 years in NASes I recently > sold) but all run continuously > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > I have been using NTI Shadow, which is really important for my $dayjob$ as > it makes copies of my source files. For photos, of course I only keep one > copy. > > However, just found out that Win7 has a "robocopy" command line command > that might do the job even better for "mirror backup" Once the files are > up again (spending 7+ hours copying the files over now...), I will look > into it. > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> > wrote: > > > I just finished backing up to my external drives. > > > > I usually set it up to happen automatically, weekly. All my user files. > > None of the program files. > > > > If you have a Seagate or WD external drives, there are free programs > > that allow you to program these backups. Finding one that allows you > > to be selective in which directories you wish, is the troublesome > issue..... > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > > > > > BACKUP! Frequently > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto