I have found myself with 4 2TB WD Green drives.
My current backup solution for important data has been simply dragging and dropping the new files on to an external hard drive - all manually done every few months.
I plug in the external drive, copy the files, then disconnect and it stays in a drawer for months until the next time I back up. I don't leave it connected to the PC.
I'm wondering whether I can buy some sort of 2-bay storage enclosure and a software solution that I can use as a backup + redundancy (I think that's the term?). Essentially, each drive mirroring the other so I have two copies. Would be great if I can take one drive out and take it somewhere, accessing it independently.
I understand there are different RAID types but I think each disk having it's own copy of the data would be better than merging the disks into one large pool of space. Is RAID 1 what I need for disk mirroring? Is that done with software backup?
Is there some software that can back up files I select (or folders) on to one drive and provide a copy of that data on the drive? Will the software check for changes to files on the main PC and update the backup with new copies automatically when I run it?
Completely not bothered about Windows or images or anything like that, just certain files and folders on the main PC.
Thank you
My current backup solution for important data has been simply dragging and dropping the new files on to an external hard drive - all manually done every few months.
I plug in the external drive, copy the files, then disconnect and it stays in a drawer for months until the next time I back up. I don't leave it connected to the PC.
I'm wondering whether I can buy some sort of 2-bay storage enclosure and a software solution that I can use as a backup + redundancy (I think that's the term?). Essentially, each drive mirroring the other so I have two copies. Would be great if I can take one drive out and take it somewhere, accessing it independently.
I understand there are different RAID types but I think each disk having it's own copy of the data would be better than merging the disks into one large pool of space. Is RAID 1 what I need for disk mirroring? Is that done with software backup?
Is there some software that can back up files I select (or folders) on to one drive and provide a copy of that data on the drive? Will the software check for changes to files on the main PC and update the backup with new copies automatically when I run it?
Completely not bothered about Windows or images or anything like that, just certain files and folders on the main PC.
Thank you