Advice on Raid/Back Up set up

AshD93

AshD93

AshD93

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Hi guys,

Two questions. My set up consists of a 250GB SSD as a boot drive and a 1TB disk drive as a media storage. I'm about to purchase a second 1TB disk drive identical to the first drive.

I need to:

1) Set up a back up off the SSD to the 1TB drive (so that if the SSD has issues I still have a copy)
2) Set the second hard disk I'm about to purchase to copy the first hard disk (I assume I need to RAID 1 this?)

Can I do this without erasing any data? The hard disk has 600GB+ free so can easily take a copy of the SSD. I have a Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 3 with lots of SATA ports free if this information is required.

I also have external backs up, with my SSD being covered by File History on Windows and any important files being sent to Google Drive and a networked hard drive. Do I need to do anything else to be safe?

Thanks in advance to everyone who replies, much appreciate all advice people can give. Ideally would like to do this without installing third party application.

Ash
 
I would use Robocopy to copy the data from one of the 1tb drive to the other. Manually run it when you add new files to the first one.

Won't take long to run after it's done the first backup, after that it will only copy updated/new files.

Use it like this..


robocopy /e "D:\sourcefolder" "E:\destinationfolder"


If you have multiple folders to copy, then do a script for each one.

Ie, one for Documents, one for Music, one for Videos

Cleaner than doing the whole of D to E as you'll pick up temporary system files etc from the drive if you do the whole drive.




For taking an image of your SSD, I would use Macrium Reflect from the live cd,
 
For taking an image just use windows built in disk imager, run from within windows and the image files can be easily mounted in disk management as another drive to just pull off certain files/folders as needed.
 
Is it best to take a image off the ssd vs. running a constantly updated back up (like has been suggested with the hard drives)?
 
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