It's not so much "wrong" as inconvenient.
I have a 3o0GB WD drive in an external USB enclosure, and use NTBackup 
to automatically backup both my networked computers weekly. I use a 
differential backup and choose to only backup data files.


Jim Cooley wrote:
> Subject:  Cheap backups
> 
> I bought a 100 gb Seagate HD for $30 after rebates.  It came with 
> software that copied my HD giving an exact copy on the new drive.  The 
> extra cost is the effort in swapping the HD's.  Is there anything wrong 
> with this as a backup procedure?
> 
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