K2 Drive Mirror App

£14.95

Smart External SSD/HDD/SD Duplication for Mac and MacBooks

Safely backup your business-critical data from your main external drive onto another drive.

K2 Drive Mirror checks the integrity of external drives and then creates a complete working duplicate on a second device so that if (or when) your main drive stops working, you have ALL your data on a backed up drive ready to continue working immediately.

K2 Drive Mirror works intelligently and efficiently so that only new data is copied across, and any old stale data is removed. This saves HUGE amounts of time compared to doing it manually and is naturally much less error-prone.

Features

Intelligently and efficiently creates an exact copy of your primary drive(s) to backup drives
Avoids expensive, error-prone and time-consuming manual processes
Allows you to select any external drive for source and destination and stores the previous selection as a quick way to do regular, incremental backups
Automatically validates your files and file-system before duplication to give an early indication of errors on a drive
Provides a perfect failover solution should you have a problem on your main drive. You will be up and running immediately using your backup drive as your main drive… after you’ve ordered a new backup drive!

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Why backup your external drives

Most photographers and filmmakers use external drives to hold all their mission-critical images and footage. It’s the only solution to avoid clogging up your machine’s internal drive, and it means when one drive fills up you can simply get another while keeping your workflow intact.

But any storage device, internal or external, SSD (Solid State Drive) or HDD (Hard Disk Drive) can fail at any time. In fact, the drives your data is on now is somewhere between working perfectly to going wrong and losing everything in the next 10 seconds. This is why having a backup system is critical; not only are you ensuring your client’s data is safe from these errors, but if it’s all on a backup drive, then you can continue working immediately with no loss of time.

Cloud backup systems are a good extra measure, but they take a long time to backup and retrieve data. This means that if you have a drive failure, any data not yet uploaded will be lost forever, and if you stop the service you lose everything too. It’s widely agreed that it’s better to backup locally first, and use cloud as a ‘belt and braces’ approach.

K2 Drive Mirror ensures you have a working backup drive at all times, no waiting, no restoring.

Manually Backing Up Data

Many people use backup drives, but manually transfer files. If you’ve tried this, you’ll know it’s takes a long time and it has a some problems:

You may have changed on your main drive, but you can’t tell if the backup drive has the current or older versions. Without checking the date and time of each file, you have to copy everything over which if you have 2 TB of data, this takes a long time.
- K2 Drive Mirror automatically only copies files that are newer, making it very efficient.
You have to select which files you know you have changed and/or added to your main drive. This can be error-prone and causes you to miss things and so the backup drive gradually diverges from the main drive.
- K2 Drive Mirror will only copy files you have changed or added to the main drive so you always have an exact copy of your main drive
If you delete unwanted files from your main drive, such as when you clear out old images or footage, it’s impractical and error-prone to find the same files on the backup drive. The effect is that you end up with your backup gradually accumulating files you no longer need and run out of space.
- K2 Drive Mirror automatically removes files that have been deleted on your main drive
Over time our drives can start to fail and they have errors in the file system, and can corrupt our files; a fact of life, especially with HDD. But without knownlege of this, you then copy these corrupted files, overwriting the good versions on your backup drive.
- K2 Drive Mirror automatically checks the integrity of the disk and file-system before copying anything, so you can be certain you have a secure backup of good data.