Backing up a backup
After a fresh install of Windows 7 and all updates, etc, i made a backup of my hard drive to a USB drive, so that I can later reinstall Windows later if needed. I only made one backup for this purpose. What I'd like to do is copy/paste this file to another portable HD, and if needed (if the original USB drive fails, or is lost or physically damaged) I'd hope to assign the drive letter and path of the first USB drive backup to the second USB drive and then be able to recover the backup. Would this work, or are there things going on that I don't know about, (or both)? Had I thought this out when I made the original backup I'd have made a second backup, but at the time I didn't know much about backup strategies.
Well, that's good news. I was expecting it to be more troublesome than that. Also, I did not know that the Windows Copy function does not always function as it should. I'll look at the REPLICATOR as another option.
Thanks.
I use ATI 2012. There is a "Backup reserve copy" option under the Advance file backup options. Checking this box and giving it a path will make a reserve copy of the backup file. If you use incremental backups it will create one tib file which will contain all the incrementals. It does not look like there is an option to only keep a certain number of files though so you might need to clean it up often.
f you use incremental backups it will create one tib file which will contain all the incrementals. It does not look like there is an option to only keep a certain number of files though so you might need to clean it up often.
Each backup created by the "reserve copy" will be a new FULL backup of the computer status at time of backup. User must do their own cleanup on how many and which of the reserve copies are to be kept or deleted.