November 30, 2007

backup software for photos from 1hhd to another?


From your comments
Hello, improve a photographer and I 2 external 300gig Firewire hard and I want to keep all my pictures on one and keep stored on the other in case of a hard drive crash. What software would be the best for this? Then, when they fully replace them with 2 new readers.

There are multiple ways of doing this. The best way is to have a daisy chain configuration. A large number of external hard drives will allow multiple hard drives (of the same brand) to be connected to one another.

Otherwise watch a product called Veritas (www.veritas.com), which is a very good backup software. You can set up different types of safeguards, including one to create a mirrored drive on the other (which is essentially what you want).

Google search for disk mirroring software for a list of other software to help you to observe and to be cheaper. A mirrored disk is the way to go because you save a hard drive to another is automatically updated to reflect your primary hard drive.


3 comments:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
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backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
start by going to start / my computer and see if you see your hdd's ... If so, you create a new folder ... Right click on free space on your desktop and click on "New" and select "File Name" ... This folder whatever you want .... Peak backup or whatever ..... Copy and paste all wanted photos in this issue ... Then copy and paste in the folder selected hdd .... Or you can simply copy and paste the pictures directly to the hdd .... If you seeveral mg or concert photos which may take some time for the transfer of patient

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
I have Norton Ghost periodic external hard drives synchronize with my PC. You can use it to specific files or for the entire system. So if your hard drive dies never anything you can restore your files, the operating system and all applications (which took hours to set up just right).
If you are only interested in redundancy, you can also set up a system with RAID disks internally.
I have external drives, which I keep in a different location, to save my bacon in the event of theft or fire, too.