Creating a mirror on an internal drive
Advantages
It will be an exact image of what is on the drive. Will be real
quick to re-image the drive
Disadvantages
If the hard drive is infected with a virus or spyware before the
mirror was done, the image can have the virus or spyware on it.
Unless you have another system that you don't mind wiping the drive,
there is no way to verify the mirror is good or not. The drive is
not portable and also in danger of infection or image tampered with
as long as it is connected to the system.
There are different methods to back up. Click on them for more
information.
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Backing up files to an internal hard drive using backup software
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Backing up files to an external hard drive using backup software
Here are other pages that may help you as well.
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Information about backing up files in the event the computer crashes
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There is a limit to how many files can be on the root of a drive
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Verify the folder you copied and the folder you pasted the files to are identical in content
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