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rabates

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« on: April 01, 2006, 06:39:03 pm »

Is there a way to sync ones backup photo file with the main HD, similar to PDA style. I sometimes find myself wondering if I really backed up everthing. Or would a operation such as this be perlious, possibly overwriting and deleating?
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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2006, 06:51:06 am »

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Is there a way to sync ones backup photo file with the main HD, similar to PDA style. I sometimes find myself wondering if I really backed up everthing. Or would a operation such as this be perlious, possibly overwriting and deleating?
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If you are using a Windows PC, Microsoft has a free "Power Toy" on their web site that makes backups, duplication and synching of folders and files on various hard drives easy. It's called "SyncToy" and can be downloaded from MS's web site using this link: [a href=\"http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en[/url]

It works great and can even synch multiple folders and drives once you set it up with a single click.

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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2006, 01:05:10 pm »

I like the free version of syncback se.  (http://www.2brightsparks.com/ )

I had the ms synctoy sync my files into oblivion and never did figure out how I managed to set it up wrong.
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2006, 04:43:00 pm »

On Windows, Karen's Replicator is quite good and free.

On Mac you can just use a AppleScript that calls rsync to do a backup. The script can automatically be triggered through an event in iCal. An example of the script I use:
do shell script "rsync -rpEgot --delete --ignore-errors Volumes/Photography/ /Volumes/BK_PHOTOS || echo -n"
I'm not a Unix expert so this may not be optimal instructions ("-rpEgot" part) but it works. "Volumes/Photography/" is the source and "/Volumes/BK_PHOTOS" is the destination.

The nice part about both these solutions is that it will only update what has changed. This is key when choosing a software backup solution. You want it to sync your directories and not just backup. A program that is designed to just backup will overwrite the destination files entirely, even if nothing has changed. As you can imagine, that can consume a considerable amount of time unnecessarily.
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