Seems like a RAID controller, a hardware one perhaps, set to mirror
drives is the simple solution.
-jeremiah
>Thanks these all appear to be good backup programs for windows and it
>looks like Mac people can get an actual mirror.
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>The problem I have is that backup will not work for this application.
>The principal program I am trying to protect is very hard on a hard
>drive and we are seeing a high disk failure rate. The program is
>propriatary and rented, but never owned. It is based on military
>security. The data is tied to the program which itself changes with
>use and that that is tied to changes in the operating system so no
>copy can be made. Then of course everything being written is
>encripted. If the program does not call home once per month it is
>locked up and made unusable. I have confirmed that the call home does
>not verify the program status from the prior call home. Backup is not
>suppose to be possible as part of this security. The bad part is
>that when a drive goes bad no other computer can restore what was
>lost. The end product is a large pdf file that is just a printout
>and not a work in progress that can be changed. I will say it sure is
>secure and even if you steal my laptop you could never get to the
>data.
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>To keep things in context to this group it would be nice to have a
>mirror where re-installation of audio editing programs with all the
>individual settings, as well as those in progress multi-tracks being
>mastered can be re-installed with the original sound files as a true
>work in progress.
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>Oh well, I will keep looking for a true mirror.
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>Rich
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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