File mirroring between 2 hard drives

[ryanv12]

So basically my question is - Is there a way of having certain files mirrored between 2 hard drives without doing a RAID 1 setup? Like say if I just wanted to mirror my photos and music without losing all that drive space.

 

[rforum]

Mirroring works on the drive level not the file level. Since you should be backing up your computer anyway, just get an extra drive for backup purposes. They're cheap these days (you can also use it as your paging drive and scratch disk for faster performance). I use Norton Ghost 9 to backup my main drive to my backup drive. You can set a schedule with Ghost 9 - I back up every Mon-Wed-Fri automatically. You set the time. Works great.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

A really simple way is to just have two drives and manually copy the files you want to backup to the other drive.

 

[JackMDS]

There is two terms used in conjunction of this topic.

1. Sync Folder/File, which is done at certain scheduled time or by manual command. I.e. it is not constant at every change that occurs on the HD.

2. Mirror Folder/Files, which keep constant Automatic Mirror of Folder/Files as they change (It is like RAID done by software).

There is a lot of Sync. Programs but very few Mirroring Programs.

Mirroring by software as an advantage on Hardware RAID since with Mirroring software you can mirror Folders/Files of your choice.

However unlike RAID you do not have a backup of the whole drive with the OS and the core applications.

IMHO the best of them is: ViceVersa.

:sun:

 

[ryanv12]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
There is two terms used in conjunction of this topic.

1. Sync Folder/File, which is done at certain scheduled time or by manual command. I.e. it is not constant at every change that occurs on the HD.

2. Mirror Folder/Files, which keep constant Automatic Mirror of Folder/Files as they change (It is like RAID done by software).

There is a lot of Sync. Programs but very few Mirroring Programs.

Mirroring by software as an advantage on Hardware RAID since with Mirroring software you can mirror Folders/Files of your choice.

However unlike RAID you do not have a backup of the whole drive with the OS and the core applications.

IMHO the best of them is: ViceVersa.

:sun:

ah, that's what I was looking for. Doesn't bother me being software. In the rare event of a hard drive failure (I've had only one in my years of computing), it wouldn't really bother me to reinstall the OS and programs and stuff. I just want to keep my invaluable files safe. Thanks a lot for your responses guys, I really appreciate it.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
IMHO the best of them is: ViceVersa.

:thumbsup: