Re: On demand backup drive.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:46:54 -0400, micky <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I have to make my backing up more frequent. 
>
>Right now I use a double dock, with a 5 1/4" drive.  I bought one whose
>advertising said it turned off when it wasn't getting input, but
>afterwards, when I tried to get the software the ad said was needed,
>someone there admitted there was no software and it didnt' do it!!!**
>
>Is there a 5 1/4" dock that will turn off when not in use. 

You probably mean a 3 1/2" drive, like a standard hard drive. CD/DVD drives
are typically 5 1/4" wide, but hard drives haven't been that big in a long
time.


>I have the impression that those 2 1/2" backup drives do indeed turn off
>when I'm not backing up.  Do they?  All of them?  Any that you
>recommend?  Any you recommend against? 
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>(I wanted the HDD image to be made to a 5 1/4 so if there were a
>problem, I could just swap HDD's.  That would work, right?

If you're making a clone, your destination drive can hold exactly one copy
of your source drive and you can boot from the clone if your source drive
is/was bootable. (With exceptions.) If you instead create images, then you
can place as many images on the destination drive as you have available
space, but you generally can't boot from an image. Instead, you'd have to
write one of the images to a hard drive and then boot from it.

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