Bvckup 2 mirroring full#
Bvckup 2 mirroring windows 10#

So as long as the contents of the DATA drive didn’t exceed ~150GB, I would be able to fit 24 copies of it onto that 4TB MIRROR (M) drive. The working capacity of my computer’s spare 4TB internal hard disk drive (HDD) was about 3.6TB. So the present plan was to supplement my regular backup scheme with hourly mirroring of files and folders that had some chance of being actively used. I might add new archival materials to E, but those would be adequately captured in my regular (cautious) backup scheme, which ran every few days. That was different from my COLDSTORAGE (E) drive. The DATA drive contained materials that were in active use, at least in the sense that I would intermittently rename, rearrange, edit, delete, or otherwise tinker with them.

Bvckup 2 mirroring full#

Each such folder would contain a full copy of all files and folders on my DATA (D) drive. My preferred solution was to have a separate backup folder for every hour of the day, numbered from 00 (i.e., midnight) through 23 (i.e., 11 PM). A relatively complex solution would create a ZIP in the source drive, move that to the target drive, and then unzip it there (see also SuperUser). Note: combining the backup into a single compressed file could be much faster than file-by-file copying if the source folders contained large numbers of files (e.g., 10K+ per folder).

So if I wanted to know whether there was an earlier backup of MyFile.doc, I couldn’t use my preferred Everything file finder to immediately locate and view all copies I would have to go rooting through those Acronis or Macrium backup files.

Moreover, as I recalled, these programs would put all backed-up files into a single compressed file, one per session. I didn’t want to rely on third-party software that might switch from being free to being paid (as had happened with Macrium some years earlier, before they switched back to offering a free version), or that might switch from being good to being semi-fubar, as had happened with Acronis. Instead of a mirroring program like Robocopy, one alternative was to use something like Acronis or Macrium to supplement a full drive backup with differential or incremental backups on a schedule. The question was, how should I proceed? For reasons described here, I chose to use a Robocopy script, shown below.

Bvckup 2 mirroring windows 10#

I had a bunch of data files on a Windows 10 desktop computer.