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Hi, I have just built my first PC and have a internal RAID 0 of two HDD running of the motherboard. This RAID is for storing media, it has no programs or anything else on it and I need to back it up to anther internal drive in case one of the drives goes. I thought this would be simple but windows can't seem to do it and I have become very confused looking for the solution. At the moment I am having to copy all the files manually across onto the backup drive. Can anyone point me in the direction of a program or solution to this?
 
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Exactly. Anything new or changed gets copied to the target, on whatever time schedule you set.
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Maybe for media editing performance?

On topic: Syncback free is good. If you want to do an actual packaged backup, I would suggest Acronis Trueimage. It's pretty robust and you can convert those images to a windows backup file if you're concerned with compatibility when you restore.
 
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I have built it for editing and though for almost all formats a single HDD will be fast enough I want to have this as part of a raw 2.5k work flow for film comps and the streams get big. I think it is still overkill but will experiment with different ways of finishing and see how I go. This is my first PC ever and I built it last week so I'm clueless with all this, hence not knowing how to back up a drive. Thanks for answering my question, the reason I cant seem to get Windows to do it is because it only wants to back up files from the user section on my C drive and I want to backup my E drive to my D drive. It seems like a pretty simple and common thing to do but I cant see how. I tried Googling it but maybe the question is too simple, I don't know, I just go endless articles about creating clones and images of RAID0 boot drives. I shall look at the program you advised if you think thats the best solution.
 
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With the above linked application, you simply point it at a source and target folders, set a schedule, and let it run.
It copies just the files from one to the other.

I have mine on multiple schedules.
Every 12 hours, copy to another internal drive
Every 24 hours (3AM) copy to another drive on another PC on the LAN.
 
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I have Acronis Trueimage! I have it for doing an image to back up the C drive, all the programs and OS. Will this do the job? I shall look into it I have it here and have not read up on it yet.

 
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So first it copy's everything then it just updated what has changed on the scheduled. So ther is always an up to date copy of any given folder or partition?

 
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Exactly. Anything new or changed gets copied to the target, on whatever time schedule you set.
 
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Thank you both for the help, I shall read up on Images, Packaged Backup and Windows Back up and stuff as I'm unsure of the differences and how that stuff works, maybe it's the best way but for now the SyncBack Free sound perfect, all the best, N.
 
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Syncback or Acronis will work just fine.

Syncback is more user friendly for sure though.
 
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