Can you mirror folders automatically?

Robertnpmk · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:50

Hi,

As the title suggests I'm looking for a way to mirror 2 folders on 2 different hard drives without using raid.

Until I can afford a second 2TB HDD. I have a 1TB Hdd and a 2 TB HDD, On both I have my pictures and other essential files that I really dont want to loose. is there an easy way so that they automatically Mirror each other? Ie if I put a file in 1 folder it automatically puts it in the other?

Not sure if I have explained myself in the best way.

My Googlefu didn't turn up anything.

thanks.

R

rpstewart · 22 Sep 2011 at 08:59

The simplest way would be to set up a scheduled task to run a Robocopy script day or so. I would advise against anything more frequent than that, especially if you're mirroring deletes. The last thing you want is to delete a file in error and have it automatically removed from your backup.

thebeagle · 22 Sep 2011 at 11:20

This is also a good little tool to use
SyncToy 2.1
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155

just a pretty frontend to robocopy really, works great

Robertnpmk · 22 Sep 2011 at 11:29

That is awesome, just what I was looking for.

thanks allot.

beejjacobs · 22 Sep 2011 at 11:33

Sweet, that looks so useful

Robertnpmk · 22 Sep 2011 at 12:19

Just researched abit more, Synctoy looks good but you still have to manually activate the backup. There is no scheduler on synctoy.

I have found the below program that allot of people are recommending and will run the backups in the background without you executing anything.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Going to give it a try when I get home.