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[fredster]

I have looked around the forum for posts on this subject without joy.

Is it possible to connect 2 external hard drives under different drive letters but rip all music to both, thereby creating a clone of all music without the need for periodically copying the files manually for safety backup ?

[Matt]

Media Center can't rip to two locations at once.  You can do one at a time, or you can manually copy the files.

[fredster]

ok many thanks Matt.    Shame ....... 

[jtwrace]

ok many thanks Matt.    Shame ....... 

The other option is that you can schedule a backup using software that will update the other drive every night.  Easily done no matter what platform you use. 

[newsposter]

Or, you could rip to a Raid 1 disk set (assuming a commonly used open-format disk/filesystem), break the disk set, and pull one of the drives for safekeeping.

Doing split-mirror backups in real-time like this is widely accepted as valid technique.

[DeepPurple23]

On thing that I do and it's fairly easy.  I rip the DVD/Blu-Ray to an external drive.  Then I use a program call Allway Sync to keep the two drives current.  You have many options on how to set up the syncing, i.e. automatic, timed intervals, manual, etc.  I find it much easier than any other method.

Good luck.

[6233638]

dBpoweramp's Multi-Encoder will do this.
It also lets you encode to multiple formats at the same time, rather than requiring you to create identical copies.
 
I find this very useful if you wanted to rip to FLAC for home listening and MP3 for portable use at the same time for example.

Or, you could rip to a Raid 1 disk set (assuming a commonly used open-format disk/filesystem), break the disk set, and pull one of the drives for safekeeping.

Doing split-mirror backups in real-time like this is widely accepted as valid technique.

RAID should never be used as a backup system.
RAID was designed for keeping servers online when a drive fails, not creating backups.

[mwillems]

RAID should never be used as a backup system.
RAID was designed for keeping servers online when a drive fails, not creating backups.

I think he's talking just using RAID-1 as a mirror method and then breaking the set by removing one of the drives.  That would probably be a functioning backup method (depending, of course, on your raid implementation), but setting up a raid pool just to break it seems way more labor intensive than just using something like rsync or winscp (much less some of the 1-click commercial backup software out there).  

[RussellS]

I use some backup software called SyncBackPro ( http://www.2brightsparks.com/ ) and just do a scheduled backup twice a week at 3am. There is also a free version that would probably suffice but I can't remember what the limitations are. You can backup across the network or just to local storage.

It really is 'set it and forget it'.