[G4] Backup Strategies

[David Crandon]

How do you set one drive to mirror the other?

David Crandon

SnowWhite wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 08:12  AM, Anne Keller-Smith
> <earthpigz at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > Does it make sense to have something that will only backup
> > changed files, or backup the whole drive each time it is
> > scheduled to back up.
> 
> You could just buy a second internal drive (Maxtor 80 gig 7200 rpm with
> 8MB cache comes to mind) and set your machine to mirror your main
> drive. This would make both drives identical and if one crashed out you
> move on to the second. And no extra wires on the desk, it's all inside.
> This suggested drive is faster, bigger, quieter and uses a larger cache
> than stock HDs. Other than that-if ever you decide to get a new
> computer, just pull the second drive before selling the old one and
> install it into your new machine to become your boot drive-no other
> transfers of data necesary.
> 
> jj
> 
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