synchronization/back up software

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the_cheat

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I have one hard drive that stores all of my music/photos/videos. I have an external hard drive that I would like to keep synchronized with the internal hard drive. So when a file is added to the internal hard drive I want the program to see that a new file is there and copy it over to the external hard drive. Does anybody know of a free program that will allow me to do this??
 
to copy a whole disk, you can make simple script in windows command line (bath file)... just use the command for copy on the whole disk and let it rewrite all files... it's not the best, but I think you will work...
 
Runn3r.cze said:
to copy a whole disk, you can make simple script in windows command line (bath file)... just use the command for copy on the whole disk and let it rewrite all files... it's not the best, but I think you will work...
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Only problem with that is he wants it to automatically update the backup as new files are added to his HDD. If youre using a batch file, not only is he going to have to manually click the icon to start it, but were talking about an entire hard drive here, that would take a verry long time to copy, if it even works. It may be a "simple script" but the execution of the script isn't too simple.
 
Yes I'm using windows and the batch file probably won't work for what I'm looking for. I'll take a look into retrospect. Thanks a bunch.
 
well if you were using unix/linux there is a built in bash command called rsync which does all of that for you, and you can set up cron jobs so it does it on a regular basis
 
Platinum said:
Only problem with that is he wants it to automatically update the backup as new files are added to his HDD. If youre using a batch file, not only is he going to have to manually click the icon to start it, but were talking about an entire hard drive here, that would take a verry long time to copy, if it even works. It may be a "simple script" but the execution of the script isn't too simple.
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that's true... it will always copy the whole disk and that could take a long time :(
 
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