Steve wrote:
> I am setting up a 3TB "Western Digital My Book Live" drive on my (Win7) home network that will act mostly as a media
> server, and also backup space for a couple of PCs. I am thinking I would like to get a 2nd, identical 3TB drive to be
> able to back up the first. I would prefer it if the 2nd 3TB drive backed up the actual file structure, rather than a
> giant archive. In this way I could just use it immediately if it needed to replace the first.
> Can anyone suggest a software answer for this?
Yes, Acronis True Image will clone the original drive to the copy
effortlessly and you can just use the second one if the first one dies.
If you want to repeat the copy frequently, xxclone does copy just
the stuff thats changed with the later clones, but is much slower
than TI for the first copy so if the contents of the first drive dont
change much, TI may be a better way to go given that an ocassional
clone of the first drive done when you arent using it for anything
much will be fine when the contents of the original drive changes.
> Here's the drive
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280
Doesnt really matter what the drive is, the same thing applys to almost every drive you are likely to use.
