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Originally Posted by GeoffW
Hi, my first thread on NTLH.
I was hoping someone might offer some advice on the best way provide some resilience for my XP home PC. I bought a new HD having realised I now have so much data and so many apps on my system that I really would want it to croak without having a backup or being able to restore it.
My first thought was disk mirroring - wrong XP Home doesn't do it. So I thought about backup, but the problem with a backup is that unless it runs automatically and in the background, I'll never remember to run it. I found the NTbackup on the XP disk, and apart from the fact it hangs part way through, it is a solution, albeit a poor one. So can anyone recommend any utilities (preferably free) that could mirror my disk or back it up without me doing anything other than set up the backup.
Thanks.
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You dont need windows xp to support a mirror drive arangement. It can be done at hardware level.
You can buy a motherboard that has a raid controler built in or you can jhust buy the card. Everything you write to one disk will be copied to the other automaticaly - you dont need to do anything.
A drive mirror will protect you from hdd failure but now fron file deltion and viruses. You should have another form of backup for that.
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