Re: disk mirroring


"Dave" <killurpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Talal Itani" <titani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use my XP Computer to run a small business. I want to create an exact
image of my C drive. Which software do you recommend? Can the IDE drive
I mirror to reside in an external USB case?

Talal Itani


Mirroring is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks
See RAID 0+1.

What you apparently want is an on-hand clone from your description. In
your case regarding your potential solution, I would keep an updated image
(not a clone) on the USB drive. Keep a backup drive available to restore
the image to in event of the current hard drive failing.
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Let me make sure I understand this correctly. A clone is an identical
drive. An image contains everything the drive contains, yet it cannot be
installed and executed, but it has to be brought in. I would run restore
from floppy disk, that brings everything from the image drive, into a newly
blank installed drive. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you. Which
software does that?


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