limeblu wrote:I want to have an exact copy of my main drive and have it backed up weekly I suppose?
If you are certain you want to make an exact 1-to-1 copy of your first drive to 2nd drive, you can try creating a Mirror profile. Note that such (Mirror) profiles will backup/apply whatever changes you made on your Source drive, including file deletions. So files which you deleted several weeks ago and just realizing your mistake this week, you probably will find that the file has been deleted as well on the backup.
You can set up weekly Recurring scheduling via
Modify > When > Edit Schedule
limeblu wrote:I dont want to keep the second drive attached at all times, just when it comes time to update the contents.
To have the profile detect and automatically start its backup sequence when it detects the insertion of the second drive in your PC, you can set up
Modify > Expert > When > Insert > Run this profile when:
If you also have weekly Scheduling turned on, you may also want to enable the setting
Copy/Delete > Advanced > Silently fail if [Side] cannot be reached...
so that you will not be notified of a run failure whenever your drive is not plugged in and the Weekly Schedule kicks in.
limeblu wrote:I am not sure which option to use, backup,mirror or sync.
The link below will provide a basic overview on the differences between Backup, Mirror and Sync profiles:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/help/index.html?newuserguide.htm
limeblu wrote:I am also worried as some of the files in my image collection have the same name/number as my camera flips over at X number of actuations and restarts at 0.
I'm sorry, but if you have two or more files named as:
0001.tif
There is no functionality in our program to differentiate such files apart, even though they may be different in size, date/time modification etc. The latest file that is going to be copied over to Destination with that filename will overwrite whatever existing "0001.tif" that is residing there.
Only suggestion I can provide is to name your files as date-format "DD-MM-YYYY.tif" and probably separating such files into differently named folders so that they will not overlap.