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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7501)	5/18/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Second copy--looks neat. And NT 4 compatible. Please keep us updated ZP (eom.)

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (7501)	5/18/1999 7:27:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

ZP one could clone (using Drive Image or other) a harddrive...preferably to an identical physical drive...and then use Second Copy to keep the drives identical. Yes..very interesting possibilities. Sounds frought with unseen difficulties. Just the way we like it right? A classic Dream Mach experiment. I'm trying to understand how Second Copy differs from Seagate Backup Exec whivh is hard since I haven't had time to completely explore BE yet. At first blush they appear almost identical. It also looks like you can set up a complete sync every night and also hourly (or other time interval) backups of selected directories. This seems like delayed mirroring to me. (quoted) Mirroring entire C drive to D drive If you want to mirror the entire C drive to the D drive, you should make sure that you do not copy the recycle bin. Create a profile from C to D with "exact copy" and exclude the recycle bin. Click the new profile button. Select Custom setup and click Next. In the Source folder enter C:\ and click Next. In the destination folder enter D:\ and click Next. Select the desired frequency and click Next Select "Only selected files" In the edit box under "Exclude file specifications" enter \RECYCLED\ Click the Add button next to the edit box. If you are using Windows 95/98 and the Windows swap file is on your C drive then in the same edit box enter Win386.swp and click Add. Click Next. Select "copy source to destination, delete obsolete files from destination" and click Next. Enter a name for the profile and click Finish. Turn off sending files to the recycle bin on the D drive. Right click on the recycle bin, Select properties, select "configure drives independently" Select D drive tab Check "do not move files to the recycle bin" Click OK. Universal Naming Convention (UNC) support Sean mentioned this involves Network Shares and is a way to deal with changing drive letters. It was and still is over my head. One commonality, of all backup sw AFAIK, is that program folders have to be closed in order to be backed up. If an app is open at backup time then it is classed as busy and not backed up. This was mentioned at 2nd Copy site also. Major pain to close everything on hourly basis but not so if scheduling occurs overnite. I wrote: I think the backed up files have a '.qui' suffix You wrote: Same but different? Actually its .qic . My ROMO is called I:\Full Backup.qic . Backup Exec has a Windows EXplorer like interface which shows whats on FullBackup.qic. Directories and files appear as they do in Windows Explorer. Where the same ends and the different begins is not known to me. Sean, if your care to help me out here? Like I said.. I need to understand BE better to see how it differs if at all from 2nd Copy. Clarence