Ditch that. Just use mozy.com. All backups go to the cloud for $5/month, less if you do 1 or 2 year agreements. Then if your house burns down, Mozy has a backup as recent as your latest backup, which can be daily. You can't get backups that good with your own equipment. Aren On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have ~56GB of data on the home PC. Some of it is important, so I've > been backing up folders using Microsoft's SyncToy. Now I'm wondering > if I should have a mirror backup (an exact copy of my hard drive) > instead of doing file by file, or maybe I should do both? My backup > external drive is 160GB, and I've got another 250GB I'm not using. > > A mirrored drive is nice since you can just plug it in and you're back > in business, at least up to the point of the last backup. With file > by file you have more work to rebuild. > > If you guys are doing mirrored backups, what software are you using? > > Thanks! > Chris > > > Rules: Please play nicely with others. > > -List members page (text & pic links): > http://www.myelcamino.net/eclist.htm > -List members page (all pics): > http://www.myelcamino.net/ec_list.htm > >