Directory Sync

m4cc45 · 27 May 2016 at 08:30

Hi

Does anyone know of a free directory sync tool for two networked PC's?

I want the directories to be exactly as the source so if a file gets removed on the source or changed it then gets copied or removed from the destination.

Any ideas?

bledd · 27 May 2016 at 08:49

How instant do you want it to be?

There are a few different options. Do you want any sort of backup/recovery?

The simpler option would be get a NAS and both work from that.

m4cc45 · 27 May 2016 at 09:17

Sadly it can't be a NAS boaty.

It has to be two windows PC's and the folders synch'd - don't need it realtime. We're also talking around 5 million files.

M.

Zefan · 27 May 2016 at 09:41

A really crude way would be to schedule a robocopy script to mirror the directory. You could adjust the frequency of the schedule depending on how quickly you need the mirroring to take place.

Alternatively, a quick Google reveals that powershell can do the monitoring of the directory, and then run a robocopy mirror when it detects changes are made. Have a read here.

m4cc45 · 27 May 2016 at 10:08

Might be the best of a bad bunch - thanks!

M.

Grrrrr · 27 May 2016 at 13:24

Bittorrent sync?

https://getsync.com/

BigT · 27 May 2016 at 13:56

This'll do near realtime mirroring: http://www.freefilesync.org/

linktoinsanity · 27 May 2016 at 16:32

Grrrrr said:
Bittorrent sync?

https://getsync.com/

This is what I use.

Uhtred · 29 May 2016 at 10:08

I use bittorrent sync as well, it's quick and reliable

m4cc45 · 30 May 2016 at 20:45

FreeFileSync is actually more on the mark of what I wanted - very easy and made copying the changes on 3.5 million files quite simple and took a 90 minutes rather than the 5 days it was taking windows copy.

Thanks for the help peeps - I'll still have a look at the rest though.

M.