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Synchronize work from one USB external hard drive to another one ?

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by zillah, 2009/02/27.

  1. 2009/02/27
    zillah

    zillah Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I have got two USB external hard drives each one 120 GB (hooked-up via a USB connection for backups.,,,,and I am looking to have same copy of my backup works on both external hard drives.

    Let us call one external hard disk primary and the other secondary

    Now normally I copy all my works (files, folders, rpograms, pictures,,,,etc) to the primary one, but after a while how can I let both hard drives have the same contents?

    Of course I can copy the entire hard disk every few days from the primary to the secondary, but this is not practical.

    Is there a program that can synchronize only new modified work from the primary USD HD to the secondary one ?
     
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  2. 2009/02/27
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    SyncBack is a flexible, and quite powerful backup and synchronization program that allows to to maintain backup copies of your files and folder, or to synchronize them, so that both locations always have a complete copy (e.g Laptop/PC). It offers different types of actions that let you choose how older and newer files are processed, which files should be excluded (by mask) and more. It offers standard file comparison based on the date and size, as well as optional MD5 checksum, which will detect even the slightest modifications to files. SyncBack also supports scheduled projects, FTPand zip compression of backups, as well as network login, simulation runs and more.

    http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/SyncBack/SyncBack.html
     
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  4. 2009/02/27
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    I would think that Synchback would do the trick - I use that to synch several hard drives to an external drive. I have not tried external to external, but see no reason why it should not work. There is a free trial and a free basic version - give it a go :)
     
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  5. 2009/02/27
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    A search on Synchronize on our site would have shown you several posts with info too...
     
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