I am trying to decide which is the best backup procedure.
 
I have over the past few years used many backup programs both free and purchased.  All have at some time failed me, or possibly it is I who have failed them, but whatever the backup has ended up in a mess.

I have now two 1gig usb externals, well, one is a Esata but my computer and/or Vista does not like it and subsequently fails to boot up, so have reverted to both on usb.

Yesterday, I switched on the two external drives before the firing up computer and unnoticed by me the drive designations were reversed, Q became R and R became Q, now that really confused both me and the backup programs!

Any way they failed as you would expect.

I thought sod it, so did a disk clone, LOL,  it took 26hours COL.

FlashPipe does a first class job of taking images off SD cards and at same time duplicating the download on the backup drive.

The problem is how to backup the files on Q drive that are subsequently processed to the R backup drive (the further processed files will probably end up in further sub folders. 

Now, it occurs to me that I never had backup problems in DOS days so wonder can anybody see a problem with running a backup from DOS? say something like:-

backup <path><filename><drive> /A /S /M   where filename is *.*   As in DOS days I could no doubt make up a bat file
 
Put simply, I want the R backup drive to be a mirror of the Q working drive,  Only image files are involved.

I can freely experiment as all the image files are safe, LOL again, on partitions on the main internal drive.

Jeff






 

Thanks Terry.

Just spent a couple of hours looking up my old info on DOS

I will look into your suggestions on my next session.

jeff

Thanks Ray.

One of the two progs I am trying is BrightSparks, I have got it working quite well on my XP Computer which is used for all general work.  I will give it a good test work out on Vista's gigabites of image files.

jeff

 

I cleared out - deleted - all previous backups residing on the R Drive and created an ran a fresh backup with Brighsparks - Syncback.

All went well and got a perfect copy.

Will be seeing how subsequent runs pan out. 

On future runs FlashPipe will have already created some initial backups, will be interesting to see if this causes a problem.

Jeff

Just run a small FlashPipe job, then messed about with the created folders – separate random deletes - on both main and backup drive, and SyncBack performed perfectly.

So the two appear to live happily together.

Jeff