On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:46:47 -0400, "Saml" wrote:

I want a mirror image of my C: drive, so that I could take out the existing
C: drive and replace it with the backup and the machine will boot. I'd
probably duplicate the drive once a week and it can run while I'm asleep.
I've just installed XP and software on a new drive, then spent ages
downloading patches and upgrades and customizing the software. I want to
avoid that in the future.

Probably running two identical drives in a RAID 1 configuration would
be what would best suit you. With RAID 1 all data is duplicated on
two identical drives. You don't need to do weekly backups or anything
- it just happens - you save something to your hard drive - it's saved
on both.

WinXP can handle RAID 1 - all you really need is is a RAID expansion
card (if your motherboard IDE controllers don't support RAID).


Albert Alcoceba


http://www.racysrailway.com/
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