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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: matt4626 on May 02, 2009, 02:10:05 pm

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: matt4626 on May 02, 2009, 02:10:05 pm

I have several hard drives that I use for backup. At the moment many of the same files are on three four different drives. I'm looking for software that can identify dups and delete if necessary. Windows XP.  

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: Kirk Gittings on May 02, 2009, 02:25:56 pm

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I wrote a utility "Smart Disk Catalogue" for creating a comprehensively searchable catalog of on-line and off-line disks (backup DVD-s, etc).

It was written because I needed its functionality in my own workflow of cataloguing backups.

One of the features i found useful for myself is a search of duplicate filenames across all disks.

Utility can be downloaded from my website at http://www.michaelezra.com (http://www.michaelezra.com), "downloads".


The setup program itself a bit old and not too flashy, but this is all I have at my current disposal.


Latest changes:
Version 1.1.0 (2009/01/26)

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: matt4626 on May 04, 2009, 10:39:55 am

Thanks I'll give it a try.

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: Jon Meddings on May 04, 2009, 11:00:29 am

Quote from: matt4626

Thanks I'll give it a try.

I use SyncBack for this sort of thing. The unlimited 'free' version does pretty much all it seems you want but the minimal amount to purchase the SE version made a lot of sense to me - it can recognize a certain drive being plugged in on a USB or eSATA port and start a specific synchronization profile for instance.

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: PeterAit on May 04, 2009, 07:04:58 pm

Quote from: matt4626

I have several hard drives that I use for backup. At the moment many of the same files are on three four different drives. I'm looking for software that can identify dups and delete if necessary. Windows XP.

But isn't that the point of using multiple drives for backup? If one goes bad, or even 2, you still have your files.

Peter

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: AndyF on May 04, 2009, 09:00:45 pm

Quote from: matt4626

I have several hard drives that I use for backup. At the moment many of the same files are on three four different drives. I'm looking for software that can identify dups and delete if necessary. Windows XP.

Duplic8 works well; http://www.kewlit.com/duplic8/ (http://www.kewlit.com/duplic8/)

Andy

Title: Sync hard drives?
Post by: b2martin on May 05, 2009, 01:26:00 am

Look at Sync Toy on the Microsoft website.  I use it all the time to keep multiple hard drives in sync, and it's free.