File synchronization programs.
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When I upgrade a users XP box I usually need to move all of their local data from their current machine to the new one. In most cases I need to do this online (unless I want to be at work very late). In the past I found that windows explorer was horrible at this (slow, stops on errors, and asks you are you sure too many times...) so I have tried and used a few file synchronizers. Filesync http://www.fileware.com/[^] and unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/[^] are the ones I have used. The problem is now I have 100s of GB of data to move (every user has gigabit to the desktop) and both programs choke and die when stepping into profile folders. Neither program makes it easy to select what folders to sync out of what is different and unison takes hours to get to the sync process. What I am looking for is a good tool for the purpose and has a license such that I can buy one license and install it on any machine that I want but not pay a fortune for it.
John
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When I upgrade a users XP box I usually need to move all of their local data from their current machine to the new one. In most cases I need to do this online (unless I want to be at work very late). In the past I found that windows explorer was horrible at this (slow, stops on errors, and asks you are you sure too many times...) so I have tried and used a few file synchronizers. Filesync http://www.fileware.com/[^] and unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/[^] are the ones I have used. The problem is now I have 100s of GB of data to move (every user has gigabit to the desktop) and both programs choke and die when stepping into profile folders. Neither program makes it easy to select what folders to sync out of what is different and unison takes hours to get to the sync process. What I am looking for is a good tool for the purpose and has a license such that I can buy one license and install it on any machine that I want but not pay a fortune for it.
John
http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html[^] SyncBack is a nice program and even the free version is very useful, and has pretty good logging too to see what happened. We use it where I work all the time. The choking and dying could be due to permissions on the profile folders.
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http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html[^] SyncBack is a nice program and even the free version is very useful, and has pretty good logging too to see what happened. We use it where I work all the time. The choking and dying could be due to permissions on the profile folders.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that.
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The choking and dying could be due to permissions on the profile folders.
The choking and dying have to do with IE cache folders. I am not sure why but filesync crashed when it hit these folders and unison said it could not copy them and since it hit an error it also did not copy several levels up in the tree. I guess I could have forced the users to empty their cache but I want a program that does not have these problems..
John