Which prog to daily create copy paste type mirrors of drives ?

RolandJS said:

I have an idea; I do this at home with the home desktop and with the home laptop. Because they contain a 2nd internal HD, I will just before doing a backup: Control Panel --> Device Manager --> hightlight the 2nd HD, right-click on Enable. When the backup is finished...right-click on Disable. I highly recommend giving all hard-drives and all partitions unique names! This way, you will always know which HD and which partition you are "aiming" at. Of course, for the very first time, you have to Disable the 2nd HD to keep it offline when any backup is not in progress.

And, those two computers also have two dedicated usb ext 1TB platter-driven HDs which receive the OS and Data partition backups bi-monthly or weekly.

Even when disabled, a drive is still subject to damage from voltage spikes and current surges (nearby lightning strikes to power lines, blown PSUs, etc. can cause those that are strong enough to blow through any surge protection you may have). If the computer gets stolen, burned up in a fire, drowned in a flood, knocked off a desk, etc., the backup drive will also be toast. The only way for data to be reasonably safe would be for it to exist in at least three separate places, as widely separated physically as practical.

LadyF, I agree with you! However, I wanted the thread starter to start doing something, anything, related to routine backups. Perhaps, sooner or later, that nice person will move from using internal backup HDs to only using external HDs, and continue doing routine backups, this time, with the ext HDs spread out like you posted earlier. Also, you did see my final comment in that post? External HDs are my mainstays.