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Bianchi wrote in post #14908749
A suggestion made to me by someone was to rotate your internal drive with your backup drive, as this will keep you informed that it's working properly

That sounds like a pain in the butt, opening computer cases up, and will put additional wear on the connectors. I don't like the idea. If you need to verify your backups, run a verify/checksum type tool.

Tim, I beleive there referring to making the backup file the primary and the internal the back up, and vis-versa, not physcialy moving.

Bianchi wrote in post #14912788
Tim, I beleive there referring to making the backup file the primary and the internal the back up, and vis-versa, not physcialy moving.

Backups shouldn't be inside the computer, or at least there should be offsite backups too. A backup inside the computer as is vulnerable as the main data.

tim wrote in post #14909624
That sounds like a pain in the butt, opening computer cases up, and will put additional wear on the connectors. I don't like the idea.

you don't necessarily need to open the case up to swap drives in & out of a machine - I have a caddy system and the only thing I do is shut the machine down while I swap drives (drive in machine goes offsite, an old offsite drive goes back in caddy)

The SATA connectors are pretty robust - there seem to be varying insertion ratings but even the lowest numbers would be good for a change every week for 10 years...

tim wrote in post #14913769
Backups shouldn't be inside the computer, or at least there should be offsite backups too. A backup inside the computer as is vulnerable as the main data.

I think I need to explain my self better. The back up drive becomes the primary and the primary becomes the back up. Regardless where they are physically. All about configuring, not physically moving

Yes three drives
1) working
2) backup
3) archive

Bianchi wrote in post #14929138
I think I need to explain my self better. The back up drive becomes the primary and the primary becomes the back up. Regardless where they are physically. All about configuring, not physically moving

Yes three drives
1) working
2) backup
3) archive

So both are inside the PC? I see no point in having a backup drive inside a computer. Viruses and human error can easily delete both. You're only protecting against drive failure, whereas offsite backups protect against allmost all failures.