Dear Dan:
You may want to check out the attached sight and see if this product would be of
interest to you. I'm not sure if the product can be set to automatically back up
the information or not. I do know that it will back up information from one hard
drive to another.

The product can be purchased from the vendor or you may have a computer store
near you. In either case, I believe they offer rebates and then again maybe not.

Check it out at: http://www.powerquest.com/product/di/index.html

I hope this will help you in your endeavor.

Frank Suszka
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Dan Dexter wrote:

> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Paul Bender
> > Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 11:47 AM
> >
> > I am trying to find a way to complete the following on a computer I
> > recently helped to assemble.  With HD prices so low, we bought 2 HD's with
> > the intention of backing up (or copying) the 1st drive onto the 2nd drive
> > on a daily basis.  What we are looking for is a method where this can be
> > done automatically, and that will leave the 2nd drive in "ready-to-use"
> > condition, rather than having a backup file that would need to be
> > restored.
>
> This should work, although you may have to test and adjust some things where
> appropriate.  You can use the Task Scheduler that comes with Win98 to run a
> command or batch that uses Xcopy32 to completely back up the drive.  One
> thing you will have to make sure of first is that your backup drive has the
> bootable flag activated (under Fdisk).  Use this command:
> xcopy32 c:\*.* d:\ /r /i /c /h /k /e /y
>
> This is assuming your backup drive is d:.  Now open up Task Scheduler (click
> it's icon on the task bar), and click on Add Scheduled Task.  Hit Next, wait
> while it finds all programs, then hit Browse.  Go to Windows\Command and
> choose xcopy32.  Type or copy the additional info I have above.  Then choose
> what time you want to schedule it for.
>
> This will copy every file, including the registry and boot files, and
> overwrite files if they already exist on the destination drive.
>
> Dan Dexter
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