[Leica] 4TB drive dead...

[Richard Man]

The failed drive is on a almost-always-on photo system. There's another 3
TB WD driver there that's a couple years older and a mostly new SSD.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> Robocopy has been around for some time, very useful.
>
> Is this failed drive used 24/7 or spun up/down quite often? I use
> enterprise disks (some were still working after 8 years in NASes I recently
> sold) but all run continuously
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I have been using NTI Shadow, which is really important for my $dayjob$ as
> it makes copies of my source files. For photos, of course I only keep one
> copy.
>
> However, just found out that Win7 has a "robocopy" command line command
> that might do the job even better for "mirror backup" Once the files are
> up  again (spending 7+ hours copying the files over now...), I will look
> into it.
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I just finished backing up to my external drives.
> >
> > I usually set it up to happen automatically, weekly.  All my user files.
> > None of the program files.
> >
> > If you have a Seagate or WD external drives, there are free programs
> > that allow you to program these backups.  Finding one that allows you
> > to be selective in which directories you wish, is the troublesome
> issue.....
> >
> > Frank Filippone
> > Red735i at verizon.net
> >
> >
> > > > BACKUP! Frequently
> >
> >
>
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