Another free program to manage your backups is Karen's Replicator:
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
I use her program to keep a current backup on an external drive, and keep a master directory of my photos two external drives in sync. I also use Smugmug for an online image backup.
Karen also has a number of other excellent free utilities worth checking out.
John Kennington
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, pixellle@... wrote:
>
> Van, thank you so much for this clear and very helpful explanation.
>
> I took a look at Cobian and read the FAQ. It seems a bit intimidating. Is it simple enough to use for a reasonably-savvy-but-no-tech-expert user, if you don't need some of the more advanced features?
>
> Also, could you tell me the difference between using the program as a service verses a program?
>
> Are you familiar with TeraCopy? It seems that Cobian is a more advanced program. Could I, for example, set Cobian to copy this 1 TB drive but break the job into start and stop times? In other words, could I set it to work on the copy between 11 pm and 7 am for a week or as long as it takes to complete?
>
> If not, and the program runs in the background, does it take much resources? Would I have trouble doing other jobs in the meantime? (I work on a laptop running Windows Vista, with 4 GB RAM on a 32-bit system. My processor is an Intel Core Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26 GHz)
>
> Thanks so much! I'm so grateful for the information!
>
> Beth
>
>
> --- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, "G. Armour Van Horn" <vanhorn@> wrote:
> >
> > Your file copy is going to run at the speed of your system, and if you
> > need to copy a terabyte it's going to take a while. There are systems
> > that copy files several times faster than Windows, but they also cost
> > several hundred times what a Windows machine costs and are only of real
> > interest when large fractions of a petabyte are involved. The only real
> > solution is to not sit there while the files are copying.
> >
> > I am an "IT place", and though I have quite a bag of tricks for copying
> > files, particularly from damaged disks, none of them is going to run any
> > faster than the disk drives. It's not like tape replication where you
> > can run cassettes through at 4x normal speed, disks run at whatever
> > speed they were made to run at, there's no way to spin the platter
> > faster and the heads couldn't write much faster anyway.
> >
> > I recommend Cobian Backup for this application. It's free and easily
> > configured to maintain a mirror of whatever set of files you want. It
> > doesn't spend time copying files that haven't changed, so updating the
> > collection is pretty quick. As long as all target drives mount as the
> > same drive letter, it doesn't care whether the target has all but one
> > file already on it or none at all, although a copy to a new drive will
> > take far longer.
> > http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
> > <http://www.educ.umu.se/%7Ecobian/cobianbackup.htm>
> >
> > Van
>
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