Looking for some input

Brad C. wrote on 8/16/2009, 10:58 PM

I'm about to purchase two 1TB Fantom external drives. One for raw files/work in progress and the other just for back up purposes of those files. Without doing a RAID array, which would be better......setting up a backup, or simply copy/pasting everything periodically to the second drive so I can have immediate access to the files?

I just need some input on a streamlined process without some huge elaborate setup.

Thanks,
-Brad

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ritsmer wrote on 8/17/2009, 12:17 AM

Have just been through the same study some months ago when my old backup program did not want to follow me to Windows 7 64 bit.

After some searching and testing different products I found the GFI Backup (gfi.com).
I installed it and and it is now doing a great job.
Here I have set it to backup every evening (could be more often) and it does this nicely to the external drive (here through Gigabit Ethernet) - and the backup files are just accessible through the Windows Explorer (no zips etc).
For some directories I backup everything, for others I let GFI Backup syncronize the files so that when I delete a file in the original then this file is also deleted in the backup.

Brad C. wrote on 8/17/2009, 3:31 AM

Hey thanks man. I'm going to check it out soon.

Quick question. Can you set up multiple backups from different sources to different sources? Meaning the C: drive gets backed up to the F: drive on "x" schedule and the D: drive gets backed up to G: drive on "x" schedule. If GFI did that, it would be nice.

ritsmer wrote on 8/18/2009, 1:05 PM

Yes, I do it too. Actually it is 2 (or more) alternating backup jobs - but it works well.

Tollaksen wrote on 8/18/2009, 1:28 PM

HP MediaSmart Server. Does all the work for you.

bsuratt wrote on 8/18/2009, 1:38 PM

I second that... great for multi PC backup and music/video (even HD!) server.