Backup Sync?

demon8991 · 12 Jan 2010 at 12:04

I have an ever increasing collection of photo’s, music and video all of which I backup as and when I add something new. Is there a program that can auto sync with a selection of folders so when something is added to the ‘my pictures’ folder for example it copies it across to various backup locations? I’d also like this to remove and edit the backups when a file is changed from its original location.

Is this possible? And is there some software that can help me with this?

jellybeard999 · 12 Jan 2010 at 12:08

Robocopy

hawker1986 · 12 Jan 2010 at 12:21

Ive been using synctoy for my backups recently, it wont run automatically though, ull have to run it when you want to backup

Hawker

moleh · 12 Jan 2010 at 12:48

Robocopy scripts are quite good tho rsync is really really good.

If you need help with some scripts just outline your data paths and I or someone will be able to help np.

demon8991 · 12 Jan 2010 at 12:56

Brilliant thanks guys!

I'll give that a go when i get home from work!

Terrier_Jimlad · 12 Jan 2010 at 13:04

SyncBack Pro ... fully automated, can mirror or just backup etc ... Not sure why this is in the hardware section though?

jbloggs · 12 Jan 2010 at 14:29

SyncBack Freeware

RoboCopy GUI

moleh · 12 Jan 2010 at 14:38

Just make sure you set the destination and source the right way round in robocopy or you might not only fail at making it up but at keeping your data at all..

thephantom114 · 13 Jan 2010 at 02:48

So does syncback actually sync folders as they change? Like if I add an album to Music on my internal hard drive it will automatically be copied to the external hard drive?

Tomsk · 13 Jan 2010 at 12:51

hawker1986 said:
Ive been using synctoy for my backups recently, it wont run automatically though, ull have to run it when you want to backup

Hawker

Synctoy can be scheduled using a command line.