Needs HD back up software that can mirrors a folder

Raymond Lin · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:50

Basically, The drobocopy part of the Drobo system is being phased out. The reason is that since Lion came out, their software got really buggy and I spoke with their tech support they are removing it from their next update. Their current version is so buggy it crashes the program whenever i click on it so it is useless anyway.

Now, what other backup software are there that basically does the simple.

1 - Point to one Folder in a HD as source

2 - Points to another folder in another HD as destination

And then mirrors the destination to the source ?

Mint_Sauce · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:02

Synctoy but you have to manually run it, it won't continually backup.

EDIT: I've just realised i'm in 'Apple Software' and considering Synctoy is a Microsoft product I doubt it will be available for Mac.

Raymond Lin · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:44

lol, yes, Lion compatible being a VERY important part.

FreeStream · 13 Oct 2011 at 00:13

Carbon Copy Cloner and Synk is what I use personally, the latter being paid and more what you want perhaps.

meghatronic · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:03

uniQ · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:37

Synk Pro/Arq But looks on macupdate there are loads of various sync tools available.

Raymond Lin · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:47

meghatronic said:
CCC.

I tried that when i started getting problems with drobocopy but it seems the way it does things is similar to Time Machine, it creates an Archive folder everytime the schedule back up runs you you end up multiple and endless old dates folders.

I think i prefer the way drobocopy did things, just a live back up of the source folder. However, the main reason i didn't like it was because I tried to use it WITH drobocopy, because it creates an extra archive folder for each day, the destination for Drobocopy also moved, which ruined the schedule rule for Drobocopy.

I mean it is not the end of the world the way CCC does things if that is the only software running, but it does mean it uses up more space.

On the plus side, it is free.

meghatronic · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:22

Raymond Lin said:
I tried that when i started getting problems with drobocopy but it seems the way it does things is similar to Time Machine, it creates an Archive folder everytime the schedule back up runs you you end up multiple and endless old dates folders.

I think i prefer the way drobocopy did things, just a live back up of the source folder. However, the main reason i didn't like it was because I tried to use it WITH drobocopy, because it creates an extra archive folder for each day, the destination for Drobocopy also moved, which ruined the schedule rule for Drobocopy.

I also use SilverKeeper, but it's not Lion supported anymore either!

GSXRMovistar · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:50

I use http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ on my Mac to perfer multiple different sync jobs between various drives, network shares. No issues so far.

FreeStream · 15 Oct 2011 at 11:30

Raymond Lin said:
I tried that when i started getting problems with drobocopy but it seems the way it does things is similar to Time Machine, it creates an Archive folder everytime the schedule back up runs you you end up multiple and endless old dates folders.

I think i prefer the way drobocopy did things, just a live back up of the source folder. However, the main reason i didn't like it was because I tried to use it WITH drobocopy, because it creates an extra archive folder for each day, the destination for Drobocopy also moved, which ruined the schedule rule for Drobocopy.

I mean it is not the end of the world the way CCC does things if that is the only software running, but it does mean it uses up more space.

On the plus side, it is free.

Erm, it only makes archive folders if you tell it to.

The base operation of CCC is just to backup one HD or Folder to another HD or Folder...

It's had a lot more options added in the Lion releases, some of which I find useful (like checksum checking - it compares the checksum on every file to check for bit rot/corruption, etc)