Perhaps this will help: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136749&cm_re=wd_usb3_backup-_-22-136-749-_-Product
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/20/review-western-digital-my-book-essential-with-smartware-backup-software/ Regards, LelandJ On 03/14/2011 03:09 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Tracy Pearson<[email protected]> wrote: >> Ted Roche wrote on 2011-03-14: >>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tracy Pearson<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> Plug in an external hard drive and a program will launch. >>> Many of the inexpensive external drives come with a button and >>> matching software that will run a backup when the button is pressed. >> I was hoping we would be able to avoid purchasing another external drive. >> But that is on my thoughts. > Can you use autostart? Does that even work on USB drives??? > >>>>> It would be nice if the program was able to determine the size of the >>>>> hard drive is greater than 4 gigabyte (or another size setting to keep >>>>> from popping up the UI) >>> I'm not sure what you're asking here. >>> >> If a UI is brought up asking the user if they would like to start a backup >> process. I would want to avoid this UI from being presented when a 2 gig >> thumb drive is put in to the USB port. Of course, this would not be an issue >> with the above mentioned drive with the button. > Create a file on the hard drive. Your backup script can check for this. > Or maybe check the volume label? > > I use a batch file for my backups. It uses 7zip to compress the files. > Runs on a schedule every night. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
