I'm wondering if it mirrors on the fly. That is, if I open a file and edit it, are the changes replicated immediately to the backup destination?
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I select when I wand a back-up, There is not a on the fly setting. There is one for every few minust though. John
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I do not believe there is such a feature, however, Microsoft has a free program called Sync Toy that can check for updates on a folder and apply them to another folder. You would do this via the "echo" mode. You select a folder on the left to be the folder is reads, then it applies all changes of that folder to the changes on the folder you select for the right side. You have to run this program whenever you want to sync, though.
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I have mine connected to the home network for the entire family to use for back up storage, from how it behaves - I can only assume it is not spinning when there is now pending activity. Initial access time is way longer then once you have the drive directory open; and on occasion despite having the drive mapped to the desktop, the auto backup software I use will stop and alert that the selected destination for the backup is not available - which I then resolve by opening the directory manually (a bit of a delay) then everything is happy again. but the aproduct info doesn't mention that specifically. It also appears to take a while to initially gain access to the drive from outside the home network which sort of reinforces my thinking that it shuts down when ot being actively polled from somewhere on the network
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I've never tried it but it is set up in the same files as on your computer.
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You can certainly copy it. I do not use automated backup routines (except for C: drive) so cannot comment on these.
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We set it up to sync. with Google Cloud for automatic backup real time, but you can program it to sync. with Drop Box, Windows cloud, and many other services. Check their website, I think there is more information there and instructions on how to do it.
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Yes, everything would be copied ... as long as the drive you are copying to is the same size or larger than your original
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I have been using the duplicator for about a year now and it works very well, however it will overwrite (erase) any info that is on the target drives when you dupe. The target drives will be exact clones of the master drive and if there was anything different on the target drives before duping, that info will be gone. I hope this helps answer your question.
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I haven't tried it, but I don't see why not. Make a folder completely separate from the one where the backups are being directed, and put anything you want in that folder.
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J. Wiggins:I had a similar time frame experience last year when downloading my map update via my Mac. Your recommendation of storing the downloaded file in a safe place, because it gets corrupted after 30 days, causes me to ask the question: where? On a thumb drive, for example? Is the self-destruct date written into the software and thus transmitted along with the new map material? Just curious. And, as an aside, my so-called "update" was missing some local retail establishments which have been in place for several years. That, too, I don't understand. Thanks.
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You can copy your drive to a same or larger but, I think you end up with all the data in the same places as the old one. I use this as a way to have a back up drive that I copy to and then use the new copy, the old drive is where I left off. In a few months, I do the same thing unless I feel performance issues and then, I pull the new files off, copy the previous version back onto the drive, install the previous drive and back to being happy. Having lost all my software and configs and taking 3 days to get back to where I had a friendly usable computer, it is worth it.
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Yes. It is set via a text file. Which then updates automatically as time passes.
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You can track any editing that is done on the timesheet but can tell if you can tell who made the changes. I'm the only who can do changes to our system so I can't answer your second question
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If it is a first time back up it takes time. Mine took two days for 1TB. All future backups only captured the changed (new) files. I use COX. If you are on DSL you have a problem (century link) Good luck
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I haven't actually tried the cloning feature - some of the other reviewers suggested that there were issues. I would typically use cloning sofware.
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Went on a 10-day device-free vacation, and when I returned, uploaded data. Took 2 separate syncs to get all the information in (no errors, just some of the older days' data didn't show up until I had synced a second time), but otherwise was without incident, and with full details as if I had been uploading daily.
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Yes. However, this device is accompanied by software that controls the back up process automatically - on the fly. Your backup is therefore always up to date - provided you set up your pc to allow these actions. Of course, it is somewhat configurable. Personally, I didn't explore all of the options available. I installed the software, and set it to select just the files one would expect to back up, such as word processing, spreadsheets, .jpegs, mp3, etc. - no operating system files.