Mirroring My Hard Drives To A New Drive

[2L84SLEEP]

Hi folks

I hope you are able to help and I hope what I ask isn't too confusing. For xmas, I bought myself a WD My Book 250gb as my hard drive (c) and additional drive (d) were getting a bit bogged down. The C drive is where I store all my photos in addition to having Windows and all my programs, and my D drive is where I keep all my music. I bought the My Book for backing up all these files but I was just wondering if you could point me in the right direction on how to go about this?

I could just make copies of all the important stuff and move it on to the My Book but that means I would need to remember to do this each time I downloaded something new. I was just wondering if there was some free program which allowed you to mirror your existing drives and update them at regular intervals?

Thanks for any help

 

[rpstewart]

There's an MS Powertoy, I think it's called Synctoy which will do this for you.

 

[wesley]

Mirrorfolder is very good but not free

i'm actually looking for a mirroring software as well to back up my hard drive to spare hard drive in "real-time" RAID 1. i've tried many sync software and they cant do "real-time" RAID 1. Mirrorfolder is only one software i could find so far but not free

the reason i want mirroring software cos few reasons, 1) a proper RAID1 (with raid controller etc) is not real 100% fault redundancy as once RAID controller failed then you're dead. Unless you find a exactly same RAID controller with same chipset as previous one and you would be able to recover the RAID arrry but doesnt means it will work 100%

I've done the experiment, with RAID 1 controller from my IC7 motherboard and 2 x 250GB sata hard drive. made RAID 1 (mirror) . put some files in there. i 'accidently' damaged second hard drive by disconnected the power cable. so i took this hard drive out and put in a spare PC with non RAID sata controller. i cannot get access the files, no matter what i do. so basically if the RAID controller died then i would not be able to recover the files as my motherboard is quite old and very hard to find one.

2) a proper RAID controller card cost money £70+. say 5 years later, its died and you'll having a major problem finding new one with same chipset.

so i feel mirroring software is best way to go