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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 344987" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Raid 0 is two disks spinning instead of one. So people assume two disks have twice the possibility of failure as one disk. This is true of Raid 1 also. </p><p> But in Raid 0, each is writing half the data in only hall the time, so maybe it instead has twice the life. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> And any time any disk fails, it is a problem.</p><p></p><p>I make a little batch file that copies only my important and changing data files (to updated zip files) on another drive (email, quicken, etc).</p><p></p><p>"C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\html.zip C:\HTML\*</p><p>"C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\MyDocuments.zip C:\Users\w\Documents\*</p><p>"C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\QuickenQdata.zip C:\ProgramData\Quicken\qdata.*</p><p>"C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\Eudora.zip "D:\ProgramData\Eudora\Mail\*.*"</p><p>"C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\misc.zip C:\Misc\*.*</p><p>xcopy "C:\Users\w\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\63oaf400.default\reminderfox\*.ics" E:\backup\reminderfox\ /D /y</p><p>pause</p><p>exit</p><p></p><p>This is just a simple desktop click, and I do it frequently, probably every day, and certainly on days when that data changes in any important way. It only copies changed files, according to file dates.</p><p></p><p>Then a disk image backup every week or two gets all else. Then at any failure (disk or system), just replace and restore, it can reboot in 15 minutes, and the zip files have everything important that changed since that last backup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 344987, member: 12496"] Raid 0 is two disks spinning instead of one. So people assume two disks have twice the possibility of failure as one disk. This is true of Raid 1 also. But in Raid 0, each is writing half the data in only hall the time, so maybe it instead has twice the life. :) And any time any disk fails, it is a problem. I make a little batch file that copies only my important and changing data files (to updated zip files) on another drive (email, quicken, etc). "C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\html.zip C:\HTML\* "C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\MyDocuments.zip C:\Users\w\Documents\* "C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\QuickenQdata.zip C:\ProgramData\Quicken\qdata.* "C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\Eudora.zip "D:\ProgramData\Eudora\Mail\*.*" "C:\program files\7-zip\7za" u -tzip E:\backup\misc.zip C:\Misc\*.* xcopy "C:\Users\w\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\63oaf400.default\reminderfox\*.ics" E:\backup\reminderfox\ /D /y pause exit This is just a simple desktop click, and I do it frequently, probably every day, and certainly on days when that data changes in any important way. It only copies changed files, according to file dates. Then a disk image backup every week or two gets all else. Then at any failure (disk or system), just replace and restore, it can reboot in 15 minutes, and the zip files have everything important that changed since that last backup. [/QUOTE]
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