Thoughts on interim backup plan?

[McGraw]

Hi.

My external hard drive that I use for backup died yesterday so I need to replace it.

I have a 2nd offsite backup so I'm not panicking too much yet.

My intention is to take my win7 laptop hd out, put it in the caddy of my broken drive then backup to my windows 8 desktop simply by copying the files over as they are, not using backup.

My question is can anyone see any possible pitfalls with my plan? I don't want to waste time before backing up but I want to take my time before I choose my next external hd.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Showboat]

If you are only copying files, why not do it over the network? You could even schedule a task to do it on a daily basis and run a robocopy command.

Something like:
robocopy "c:\users\my user\my documents" "z:\my documents" /E /SEC /R:5 /W:5 /LOG+:c:\logs\backup.txt

Do multiple lines for multiple locations.

 

[McGraw]

Thanks. I did consider this but the data is about 240gb and not sure if my 4 yr old vaio has gigabit Ethernet. Will check