Michael,

I would welcome a re-statement of your objective.

You previously said:

and you also implied that you had system imaging under your belt already

so I took it that what you wanted...

Yes.
But my point was about whether or not they were always connected or not.
I couldn't give a monkey's how they are connected.

Denis

Michael,

Any permanently-connected disk will be exposed to the same malware as the source disk. That's one of the reasons for using external USB-connected disks for backup.

Denis

Mike,

External disks connected by USB are the most reliable backup drive technology.
Even with them, I alternate my backups between two of them so that I am protected from only discovering that a...

Mike,



1 I do not know why you mention that.



2 I do not understand what you mean.
Please post a screenshot if you want me to understand.

Michael,


Copying your own files creates a copy of them.
Copying a Windows drive will not copy every single file because various folder permissions will get in the way which is why we use disk...

Backups are made onto external disks not onto your computer.
A backup made on your own computer's disks is marginally more useful than a chocolate teapot.
I only have one file backup onto my own...

Michael,

I'll reply to the rest of your post later.


Not a bother.



It's just a bit of manual manipulation of the Quote facility. I often find it very handy, when responding to...

Michael,

1 Small point first just to get it out of the way:-
You can avoid :D turning into a smiley face in your posts by selecting the text and clicking on the NoParse icon 389813 so, whilst...

Michaek,

And have you done the backing up, the RoboCopying?

Denis

Michael,


I don't know what you are referring to. I don't think I have made any comments about your installed apps at all. I don't think your installed apps have anythgin at all to do with...

I think that method is better than doing nothing.


That method will not preserve timestamps; it will change folders' & files' Date created to the moment of doing the copying.
RoboCopy is the...

Michael,

Any approach is good.
What is important right now is to put a backup on each of two external disks.
We can then discuss which approach is "best" when we know that your files have been...

Yes, it's fine.
I'd have chosen to take and post a screenshot though.
The pdf loses a lot of the clarity that a screenshot achieves.
Your pdf - my example screenshot
388942 - -...

"Seems Ten Forums dissolves what ever I have written if I go to another screen. Annoying,"
I'm guessing but - instead of clicking on links while you are writing a post, right-click on them and...

Michael,

1 "I needed figure how how to clear a "Permission Error" in one of my flash drives. Looks like I have succeeded."
You have not mentioned this before.
Real permission errors on a...

Michael,

I've finished tinkering with my last post [adding in further Macrium notes & links to equivalents].

Night,
Denis

1 "Do you have any suggestions for a Opens Source track?"
No, I use Windows, Windows commands & [commercial] Windows applications.
I use Acronis True Image for system images.


You might...

1 "I have been planing on having 3 independent drives: the main one and two mirrors."
I do not try to mirror drives[which is normally called cloning if I have understood you correctly]. I use...

Michael,

1 You mention sizes.
- In general, your own files are going to be in these folders unless you have deliberately chosen other locations. You can get to each one by pasting the folder...

"Personally, I always copy when I'm using RoboCopy" - I just meant using RoboCopy to copy rather than move.

I regard RoboCopy as better than the Copy & XCopy commands because it can preserve the...

Mike,


Understood.
I don't think folder file is at all useful. It made me concerned that you had something particular in mind that I had failed to recognise. There are folders, there are...

I do not know what you are asking.
1 You talk about using RoboCopy to copy somewhere else then delete the source i.e. you are asking about using RoboCopy to move folders & their files. See info...