Any Good Automated file backup software

[§I€MFKR™]

I need some good software that will just run in the background and backup every hour or so and at shutdown from a hd to hd. any good ones out there i can't find one. any ideas???

[cyberskye]

Why don't you write a batchfile that runs in 60 minute intervals? You could manually run it before shutdown.

Skye

I wouldn't spend the money on commercial products unless I was ready to invest in a tape drive. HDD to HDD doesn't require special drivers or other software to accomplish what you want to do.

[Sid]

Buy a RAID controller card and set it up on raid 1. Make sure the two drives are the same. Then what ever you put on one drive will automaticaly be duplicated on the other drive without any kind of intervention.

[Norm]

xxcopy c:\ d:\ /clone /yy

Great piece of freeware. (win32)
Used with a timer in a batch file would do the job. It copies all files even 'in use' files and the swap file.

On each pass, it only copies what is new, or what has changed, saving a lot of time.

[§I€MFKR™]

Still a little novice when it comes to the software end. How to you make batch files . where,what,and how??

[§I€MFKR™]

and with a raid card do the drive have to be exactly the size, type,model, and speed?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Originally posted by Hybridmonolith
and with a raid card do the drive have to be exactly the size, type,model, and speed?

Technically it will work with mixed drives, the speed will default to the slowest drive, and the size will default to the smallest, so the rest of the space on the larger hard drive will go unused.

But the performance hit of using mixed drives is huge...best to stick with exactly the same model, type, series, etc.

You were looking for backup....RAID 1 can help protect against physical drive failure, but it does not protect against user error, or damage from a virus, which is where backing up via software to removable media comes in handy. Not really sure which kind of protection you are looking for.

[§I€MFKR™]

Basiclly i have alot of files and software files, and about 6000 and counting mp3s and i used a little program that would do a backup of just my my documents folder where i have all my files every hour and at shutdown with no loss of system performance. but the program started giving me problems so i was looking for something the did the same.

[rmrucker]

You may wish to look at this free program:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp