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| Disc synchronization tools for Windows |
 Jul 22 2008, 08:11 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9  |
My boss at work informally assigned me to look into synchronization tools for Windows. The main scenario we're looking at is computers out in the field, where we'd be doing some data-processing on site and backing up data to external drives.
I dug around a little bit and found out about MS SyncToy, but does anyone have experience with this? Any other programs you might recommend? -------------------- |
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Jul 22 2008, 05:53 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
not real sure exactly what you mean. computer A mirrors computer B in real time? or computer A just copies to computer B at specified intervals?
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Jul 23 2008, 07:39 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Backing up folders A,B,C from internal drive to external drive at specified intervals. Or reconciling two external drives that were used to back up data from the main machine at different times (I had to do this by hand). Like syncing up a PDA with Outlook on your computer, only with a folder structure rather than mail/calendar/etc.
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Jul 23 2008, 01:59 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
we had similiar needs at my first company. not that this helps but I just ended up writing a simple background service that would monitor the directories and realtime copy the contents to the other directories. I forget what it was but .NET has a class you can use that will fire an event for you whenever a directory's contents have changed. or if not using something like that it'd be simple enough to write in some other language with a typical event loop.
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Jul 23 2008, 03:35 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Yeah, mainly it's just to simplify the process of backing up drives in the field. The usual process right now is to back up to two external drives per computer (two for protection against shipping snafus), but it's all done by hand. So not everything that gets changed on the computer necessarily gets updated on the external drive and the two externals may not end up identical... real pain in the ass.
I think I'll probably just push for my boss to try out SyncToy. It looks like it does everything we need it to (and it's free). This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Jul 23 2008, 03:36 PM -------------------- |
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