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Originally posted by Hypo:
Whats a harddisk mirror?
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Two ways you can do it...
1. An additional hard drive that your data is written to at the same time as your main drive. You operate as usual, but (for example) when you save *mystuff.doc*, it's written to both drives at the same time. The second drive is basically an exact duplicate of the first.
2. Connect up a slave drive in your system, and use a program like PowerQuest DriveImage 5 to create an *image* of the hard drive. You can do it with CDRWs too, but it's much slower. If down-time is a factor, image it onto another hard drive, because it can only be done in DOS mode, so if you're running a server or something... you're down the whole time it's running.
Imaging 10 gigs to another hard drive will usually take about 45 minutes with a 1 gig cpu. The nice thing about this is it eliminates the need for backing stuff up onto CDs or anything else. If something gets corrupted, or even if your main drive goes tits up, you can boot off the DriveImage rescue floppys and restore the entire hard drive back to where it was without losing a single preference or setting.... SHAZAM!
Or you can restore just a single file. It's very versitile.