Backup

Hi, I'm needing some basic help regarding backing up my data. I have 2 1.5tb internal hard drives and am trying to back them up onto 3 x 1tb external hard drives. However I am finding it impossible to manage manually. I'm sure there is a simple way of doing this but I cant find it!

I have tried created a spanned volume but when the wizard finishes it comes up with "The operation is not supported by the object". Same thing happens when I try and create a stripped volume. I'm obviously missing something.

Maybe there is some software out there that could simply copy 2 drives into 3 smaller drives?

I am running windows 7.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

I use a program called AOMEI Backupper. Using high compression, smart sector copy and VSS you may be able to image both of your 1.5 TB drives to 1 - 1TB drive. I always get an image that's less than 50% of the original drive's size. Plus, AOMEI allows incremental and/or differential backups. If you create a WinPE bootable CD, you can back up individual files and folders when running AOMEI from the CD (that feature isn't yet available in the installer version).

 

Windows 7 can do it but you could also consider your file structuring.

If you make a System Image of the two HDD you could then "restore" them to the other 3 HDD if your create a RAID.

For the 3 HDD you could create a RAID for all 3 and then restore the above image to the 3 HDDs.

The keywords are in there and win 7 has all the tools.

 

Many thanks for your help mdonah and bold eagle. Its very much appreciated. I am going to try Bold Eagles idea and if it doesnt work I will try mdonahs idea. Cheers.

 

@Bold Eagle,

Can you create a RAID Array with USB connected drives (which is what mrjasonball has)?

 

My apologies - I didn't read the external HDDs - not sure if you could create a RAID.