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Time Machine-like back-up Manager for multiple drives?
HI,
I’m working on a project that is pulling from several FW 1TB drives.
For each drive, I have a back-up drive.
Is there any software similar to Time Machine that makes sure the backup drives are current and will reflect any of the changes I’ve made to the original drives?
Thanks in advance,
Wayne
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Umm, pretty sure Time Machine allows you to back up external hard drives to a single external hard drive, as well as your computer.
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Hi Tom,
But can you have multiple instances of Time Machine backing up multiple drives simultaneously?
W
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Oh I see sorry- so you don’t want one backup working on everything, you want separate backups such as drive 2 backing up drive 1, drive 3 baking up drive 4 etc… Im sure there’s a system for this, I looked into it once but cant remember what I found. Presumably a software RAID mirroring isn’t quite what you want, I mean that wouldn’t let you look ‘back in time’…
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Wayne,
Time machine only works on your boot drive – not external media.
I haven’t ever seen anything that monitors like Time machine – where it monitors and backs up on an hourly basis…and permits you to visually go back. For years, most backup software will do this, but you have to keep it running all the time – and it just adds an incremental backup.
But I suspect what you really want, is a Raid 5 – a set of several disks (usually 4) that use a percentage of room on each disk as redundancy information in case one of the drives die. You then replace the one dead drive, and it rebuilds the missing one. You can see solutions from GTech, Lacie and Drobo (amongst others.) This isn’t a backup – merely a live drive that is redundant. You will still need to backup media in the long term.
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Get ChronoSync.
My fave backup/sync tool.
Just Syncs differences. Not complete copies again and again and again.. -
Gents,
Thank you all for the tips – I’ll give Chronosync a look,
Wayne
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