• Backing up files to a pair of External Drives
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Hey friendos. I have a bunch of older files I don't need regular access to that I'd like to store externally. I want to mirror them between two external drives I have laying around, for redundancy, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Any suggestions? I'm doing this on Windows 10.
I have not only writing files on my system, but editing projects, genealogy files, family photos, and 500 GB of other stuff I don't want to lose. I have an external hard drive to which I back up important stuff every day or so, partly so I can easily transport really large files to another computer offsite without having to throw it up online and pull it down again. But for continual protection, I've been using Carbonite for a couple years now. It's not at all expensive, everything is encrypted, it's constantly backing up changed files automatically, and it's reasonably fast and unobtrusive. It's also eligible as a business deduction (in the U.S., anyway) if you do this stuff for profit.
Windows 10 comes with a build in utility to backup and mirror data across several drives known as Storage Spaces, which is like a software based RAID setup. https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/12438/windows-10-storage-spaces Never used it though so I cannot really help with it, but it could be useful in your case
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