[iyonix-support] Re: HD copy. Eezee ?
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:32:34 +0100
In message of 29 Aug, Xavier Tardy <xatardy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I'd like to know if duplicating a hard drive to another one is just a
> matter of plugging
> the 2 hard drives and copying files from the source to the
> destination.(setting the master an slave
> small plastic bits of course).
Yes, I do this regularly.
> I'm experiencing some problems with a machine recently bought on ebay.
> It freezes when the desktop shows.
> The mice moves but no action is possible.
I used to experience this when I used straight Copy and one or two
better known backup programs such as DirSync and SyncDiscs. Then Steve
Revill released 7backup earlier this year and I found this worked very
well, though you must disable any fetchers (PopStar, Hermes, Newshound)
and programs such as Blackhole2 which do things to the disks while the
backup is happening. It can be got from:
http://www.7thsoftware.com/software.htm
> The computer works ok when I unplug the hard drive.
> My idea is to remove the hard drive, format it, copy the content of a
> fully working Iyonix HD on it,
> and plug it back.
>
> So, is it as straightforward as written first lines above ?
There are a few people who mount disk caddies in their Iyonix so that
they can do regular backups and still move the drive elsewhere. It
makes the backups fast enough to be usable.
The first time you do a backup will always take a very long time. But
my nightly updates thereafter took around 40 mins to do 40 GBytes.
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