Backing up to two external hard-drives

[nuemes]

I've got a G5 Mac and have been recording all audio files to an external 250Gb hard-drive (not onto the Mac itself). I've begun to clue in to the dangers of keeping everything on a single external drive from reading other people's hooror stories and have today gotten a 1 TB (1000 Gb) hard drive.

Now, I'm not much of a computer guy. So here's where I could use a hand.

Idealy, I would save everything on the Mac & the 250GB drive to the 1TB drive so that if either the Mac or 250Gb drive fail I've got it all backed up to the 1TB drive. Then I'd continue recording to the 250GB drive as I've been and do weekly saves to the 1TB drive.

Is this typically how external hard drives are handled for backup storage? Is there a better way to go about this? It seems logical to me but I have no experience otherwise.

Any advice/recommendations? How about your own setup?

 

[SonicAlbert]

I'd also recommend a backup program, one where you can automate the backup process. I use an application called "ChronoSync" and it's a wonderful backup program.

In ChronoSync you set up your backup your backup routines as individual files that will run a specific backup of a folder to another folder. Then you can assign these folders to a list that will automatically run when you launch the program. Or you can schedule the backups.

I would do that for all applications and documents you generate on a daily basis.

Your boot drive I would back up to a different drive than the other files are backed up to. In other words, create a clone of your boot drive on a drive that is dedicated to just that.

So your backup routine looks like this:

Your OS boot drive is cloned to a drive dedicated to that.

Any other applications and documents you create are backed up to a different drive that is dedicated to just that purpose.

 

[nuemes]

Thanks Albert; I'll check it out.