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    I want to mirror a Sandisk drive. How?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by AtLarge, May 3, 2008.

  1. AtLarge

    AtLarge Notebook Geek

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    I have two 4gb Sandisk USB drives. The black ones with the pop out connector.

    I have MS Outlook pointed to one all the time for my Personal Folders. I have 8 years of work related documentation, pdf's, spreadsheets and anything else worth keeping.

    The other I want to use as a mirror for the first one in case it dies. Suggestions on how this can be done or am I just stuck doing a full copy from one the the other every couple days?

    My monitor has two USB ports next to each other so it would be great if I could just plug them both in and have one mirror the other constantly.

    I'm open for suggestions. TIA. :)
     
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  2. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    You should be able to use a program like Norton Ghost, to be able to image the data on one Usb drive to another. The program works great for harddrives, so I do not see why it would not work for usb drives.

    or

    you can go into my computer, select the drive, and then hit conrtol A, and then control C, then go to the second USB drive, and hit Control V. Then all of your data will be placed on the secondary Usb drive.

    K-TRON
     
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  3. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    I think he wants to skip the manual copying

    Our office use something similar, they wrote a batch file that makes automatic backup to the other drive
     
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