need simple Back-up / sync software

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Hope someone can recommend a simple prog to back-up / sync my work 'My Documents' folder to a pen drive and back again

Im fed-up of coming home only to find the document i have been working on is at work on my laptop

Thanks in advance

Phil G
 
i ahve an issue with synctoy. I only for example keep 40gig of my video folder on my main c drive. and then on my backup drive the 'my video' folder is 100gig so how do i get my changes on the local drive over when the folder is diffirent on the backup drive?
 
Give FolderShare a try, I use it to sync work files with my main PC and my work laptop. Its fully automated and works great.

Dont know how long it will be free for, its still in Beta, you know what MS are like, they will no doubt start charging for it soon.
 
i don't see any way of backing my music, vid and doc folder up if they are diffirent on backup drive in the first place, the problem is storage, i can't keep all my data on my main hard drive. so i just drag it over at the end of each week which can be confusing if i have had a busy week for downloading and ripping!
 
i ahve an issue with synctoy. I only for example keep 40gig of my video folder on my main c drive. and then on my backup drive the 'my video' folder is 100gig so how do i get my changes on the local drive over when the folder is diffirent on the backup drive?
Use robocopy, you have to tell it specifically to delete files on the target which don't exist on the source. Use it without the /MIR switch and it does precisely what you want.
 
jimlad..


robocopy /e "c:\source" "d:\destination"


that's exactly what you want mate

the '/e' makes it copy all files and folders from the source to the destination, if files exist at the destination that don't at the source, it just leaves them there and doesn't care about them..
 
copy what i wrote and paste it into notepad, then save it as backup.bat (not .bat.txt**)

double click the file and it'll run your backup for you.


if you type.

pause on a new line, ie..


"


robocopy /e "c:\source" "d:\destination"
pause


"
and save that (without the quotes) it'll require you to any-key after the run

make some test folders to try it out with, keep the quotes that are around c:\source, incase you have spaces in the folder names
 
copy what i wrote and paste it into notepad, then save it as backup.bat (not .bat.txt**)

double click the file and it'll run your backup for you.


if you type.

pause on a new line, ie..


"


robocopy /e "c:\source" "d:\destination"
pause


"
and save that (without the quotes) it'll require you to any-key after the run

make some test folders to try it out with, keep the quotes that are around c:\source, incase you have spaces in the folder names

ok i'm gonna give it a try tomorrow! and report back thanks mate!
 
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