What the difference between backing up and mirroring/synchronization?

[ManBearPig]

Anyone know?

As far as i can tell, backing up is for people who want to put everything they have on another drive in case their main drive fails, so they can just continue on from the backup.

mirroring is for people who want to have certain files copied over to another drive as a backup, but dont really care about restoring everything and starting from where they left off.

right or wrong? it seems like the words are used really loosely so i was kind of confused as to what to do.

i never really got it but i downloaded syncback and it asks whether you want to mirror or backup, so i figured i would ask.

thanks

 

[ManBearPig]

bump

 

[pontifex]

they can mean both really, but i'd say mirroring is for a full restore because with mirroring, you usually use 2 drives that have the same data so if one drive fails, you can still run with the other drive.

 

[screw3d]

Backups will let you have your old data back. Mirroring just gives you whatever you have now.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Backups will let you have your old data back. Mirroring just gives you whatever you have now.

exactly - think virus - all files that get screwed up will be screwed in the mirror. if they are in a backup format, more than likely they not affected unless the virus goes after that particular file extension