Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any software that will allow me to keep two drives synchronized. In my PC (running XP) I have a data drive which I'll regularly add files to, change files on and delete files from. I'd like to once a week plug in an identical sized drive (I have a SATA bay on the front) and I'd like to tell some program to synchronize the drives, and choose which of them is the source. Then it'll see, for example, that I deleted x number of files in various folders, which it will then delete from the 2nd drive too. Same goes with new files and modified files. When it's done, the second drive will be identical and I can remove it. This way, if I do this once a week, I'll always have a backup drive that's ready to plug and play at a moment's notice.
I currently achieve this using Acronis True Image Home with it's "Clone Disk" procedure, but that's copying the whole of the 500GB drive each time and takes 3 hours. With a simpler synchronize tool I expect it would be all done in 5 minutes.
I've investigated XP Briefcase, but it's not what I'm looking for. I want something that examines my whole drive and compares it with another whole drive.
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any software that will allow me to keep two drives synchronized. In my PC (running XP) I have a data drive which I'll regularly add files to, change files on and delete files from. I'd like to once a week plug in an identical sized drive (I have a SATA bay on the front) and I'd like to tell some program to synchronize the drives, and choose which of them is the source. Then it'll see, for example, that I deleted x number of files in various folders, which it will then delete from the 2nd drive too. Same goes with new files and modified files. When it's done, the second drive will be identical and I can remove it. This way, if I do this once a week, I'll always have a backup drive that's ready to plug and play at a moment's notice.
I currently achieve this using Acronis True Image Home with it's "Clone Disk" procedure, but that's copying the whole of the 500GB drive each time and takes 3 hours. With a simpler synchronize tool I expect it would be all done in 5 minutes.
I've investigated XP Briefcase, but it's not what I'm looking for. I want something that examines my whole drive and compares it with another whole drive.