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Re: I need good backup software for my external Hard drive
 

Use robocopy from a cmd prompt. Here is a example of a bat file that writes a date\time to update.txt.

echo on
echo started robocopy at %date% %time% >> update.txt
:start
echo started backup1 at %date% %time% >> update.txt
robocopy D:\D G:\Backup_D /MIR /R:0 /W:0 /V /ETA
echo started backup2 at %date% %time% >> update.txt
robocopy D:\Music G:\Backup_Music /MIR /R:0 /W:0 /V /ETA
echo completed at %date% %time% >> update.txt
REM goto start

Post deleted by Mat Sklansky
 

Re: I need good backup software for my external Hard drive
 

Sorry, its a command line executable. It is probably included in a Windows Resource Kit. I'm sure you can google it or d\l it from MS.

Re: I need good backup software for my external Hard drive
 

Oh, and BTW, not sure about backing up files being used. You will just have to try it and see. I know volume shadow copying or DoubleTake would do it, but IIRC those are more for Enterprise systems.

Re: I need good backup software for my external Hard drive
 

Norton Ghost works for me. I use it with an external firewire drive.