Guys i back my pc up every month, but it takes ages, is there a way of saving a doc to 2 locations at once, ie if i save a picture to my c drive is there away it can be saved to my external hard drive at the same time?

hope this makes sense.

i use an online sync application called drop box. When the file is updated on my PC, it update sthe online version, it also means you can use more than one PC to access the files, but also have the file stored on every hard drive of all the computers you use.

What like a RAID array?

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Originally posted by BenB
What like a RAID array?

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No easy way of doing it also if you get a virus or malware it will infect both sets of data.

You don't need to back up every document every time you back up just use software that will do an incremental back up (ie only changed files are backed up) with a full back every few months.
Cobian backup will do this for you and it is 100% free and very reliable.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Either get a free software to backup your files to your USB disk OR have a cheap network RAID (2 discs for mirror) and the proper software doing backups every time you connect to your home network / scheduled / on demand for the proper thing (Actually, disks should be away from your home as in case of a fire / flood / ... both laptop and disks array could be destroyed) or, more easely, ....
For the later, something like a ReadyNas Duo does the trick and is quite inexpensive.

Joao

A Raid Mirror pair is only protection against hardware failure, it won't protect against getting your files destroyed by malware or a hacker.

[Edited on 15/10/09 by britishtrident]

I use Beyond Compare 2 seems easy and fast enough.

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Originally posted by britishtrident
No easy way of doing it also if you get a virus or malware it will infect both sets of data.

You don't need to back up every document every time you back up just use software that will do an incremental back up (ie only changed files are backed up) with a full back every few months.
Cobian backup will do this for you and it is 100% free and very reliable.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

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Well, here's the joy of Unix (whatever flavour), you can do so much. It means not handing Microsoft vast amounts of money and using something that you build yourself from Share/Freeware, free! Hey, it's a Locost!

Here's a script that does exactly what you need, which I wrote for automatically moving multiple copies of datafiles around, anywhere.

Get yourself a Red Hat...!


> /* path to current fid directory */
> sprintf(dataset, "/%s/data/%s/nmr/%s/%d/pdata/1/", disk, user, name,
> expno);
>
> if ( ( pipe=popen(login, "w" ) != NULL )
> {
> fprintf(pipe, "lcd %sn", dataset);
> fprintf(pipe, "mkdir %sn", name);
> fprintf(pipe, "cd %sn", name);
> fprintf(pipe, "mkdir %dn", expno);
> fprintf(pipe, "cd %dn", expno);
> fprintf(pipe, "put fidn";
> fprintf(pipe, "put acqusn";
> fprintf(pipe, "mkdir %d..... put etc.)
> pclose(pipe);