--- betty wrote: > thank you for your response; > what i want the result to be is that i have an internal backup of my > entire drive , in case hda fails someday. > what i would like to do is, once the whole drive (hda) is copied to hdb, > to periodically just do updates so that it stays a mirror of hda. is > that possible? i don't plan on ever using hdb, and hdb is a large as hda. > so if i do ; I'm jumping into this discussion late, so I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but you might look into RAID mirroring. The RAID controller would do all the work for you. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Compare mortgage rates for today. Get up to 5 free quotes. Www2.nextag.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss