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One Click Backup Redundancy

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I have One Click Backup backing up my files to a separate hard drive. Now I want to have One Click Back up to two different hard drives for redundancy. The reason is so that if one hard drive fails I will still have the One Click Back ups on the other hard drive. How can I do this?

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Hi
i dont think you can set it to go to both drives at the same time, it would be best to have a look on the net for instructions on how to convert the two external drives to RAID, that way you will be covered if one goes down.

i have done a quick look myslef and found one place but im sure there are others if you look.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6029966_raid-two-external-hard-drives.html

either that or buy a purpose built RAID external drive, this is what i use.

http://www.verbatim-europe.co.uk/en_1/product_2-disk-raid-external-hard…

Hope this helps

Pete

Alan N,

One Click Backup is only an automated way to create a backup of:
- the system disk, with a disk and partition backup (all partitions of the system disk, and the active partition, wherever it might be) should be in that backup,
- the content. One click backup creates a non-stop backup (if I remember correctly) of the user content. If your user content is already covered by the disk and partition backup above, and you are OK with its frequency/retention rules, you don't need another backup. If would go with a regular file backup instead of a non-stop backup (which doesn't support validation and auto-cleanup of older versions).

If you have a lot big already compressed files that don't change often (videos, music, photos, ...), you can consider excluding them from your backups and use a file synchronization/replication piece of software to handle these. No need to put these into a proprietary container.

The point is that you can easily duplicate what a One-Click backup does and then create as many backups as you want on different destinations.

Alan,

For your own security, spend some time and investigate what is being included in your backup. The One-Click backup may not be including all your partitions inside the backup. What version of TrueImageHome? What version of Windows are you using? If using Win7, there is a good chance not all your partitions are included. The Windows Disk Management graphical view will display the partitions listing for your disk.

Click on the first line of my signature below and review index item 3-M.

The best type of backup that you need to create a new disk (should your disk fail) is one that includes all the partitions or the entire contents of the disk. Make sure your One-Click backup is including all your partitions or create a new task that will.

While not all partitions have to be included within one backup, you do need a backup of all partitions as all may need to be installed to a new disk.