Back-up Hard Drives

[swarga]

Brian,

I am running XP pro also. I have the Maxtor connected to a usb port.

You need to choose:

Do you want to use the one touch feature?

or

Do you want to set up a script?

Or do you want to partition the drive in the Maxtor to do both?

If you bought the 80 gig unit I would suggest one of the first two options.

I chose a full backup. (Mirror of the hard drive)once a week. (Sunday @ 2:00am)

It took 12 hours for the first back up

It took 8 hours for the second backup

The third was done in under 6 hours.

The manual says that it will get faster the first 10 times you use it.

If you have a 40 gig drive I would suggest a minimum of the 80 gig maxtor and really the 120 gig would be better. I set mine up so that it has two complete mirrors of my hard drive in it. (That way if I get a virus at 10:00 pm on Saturday and back it up, I still have the backup from the previous week)

The one touch feature will back up files but I don't believe it makes a mirror of the hard drive.

Good luck.