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Topic: The way of back up music on HDDs (Read 1786 times) previous topic - next topic
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The way of back up music on HDDs

Supposing, I have one 40Gb and one 160Gb. I need to back up a 160 to 40. The only way I've thought out: to convert my APEs to Wavpack with Hybrid mode, which will allow me to restore the original WAVs and to encode them to APE again in the case of the 160's death... However, I don't need to play these Wavepacks, I only need them to restore original WAVs... Maybe, there is a more economic method?
 

The way of back up music on HDDs

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Do you mean to say you would like to backup 160GB of losslessly compressed audio to 40GB, with the 40GB containing exactly the same content as the 160GB? That's not possible, by choosing a more efficient format you might shave off a few percent, but nothing near to what you'd need.
What you can do of course is store lossy files on the 40GB disk, but then it isn't a real "backup" anymore.
If I understand you correctly and you want a lossless backup of the 160GB disk, I'd recommend buying a bigger hard disk to backup to.