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Kurt wrote:Windows 7 will do that for you with its built in backup utility but you cannot raid a laptop since they do not take two disks.
The best bet is to buy a "Toaster"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817153071
+ whatever hard drive is cheapest and the size you want.
Plug it into your laptop and go to the control panel and look for a the backup utility.
thewalrus wrote:Kurt wrote:Windows 7 will do that for you with its built in backup utility but you cannot raid a laptop since they do not take two disks.
The best bet is to buy a "Toaster"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817153071
+ whatever hard drive is cheapest and the size you want.
Plug it into your laptop and go to the control panel and look for a the backup utility.
you can most definitely set up RAID1 or RAID0 with a laptop, any modern laptop (not ultra-slim) has a 9.5mm or 12.5mm height optical drive bay with a SATA interface that can accept a caddy holding a second hard drive. it's not an uncommon configuration with high-end workstation laptops like the thinkpad W520 or similar, where somebody absolutely needs a ton of storage (1TB+1TB) or is paranoid enough to run RAID-1. it does hurt the battery life a bit.
the easiest way to back up a laptop is to use an external hard drive sufficient to hold the whole laptop, and rsync everything starting from the root of the filesystem.
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