Which free tool would you recommend? (file backups/copies) ALREADY SOLVED THANK YOU ALL!
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Yes it is Smart... it Works wonderfully. I've ended up with /MIR /XJ. XJ seems to exclude junctions... Important if you are copying My music, My documents and so... it seesm those folders have DIRECTORIES and JUNCTIONS... and the latest make the copy operation to fail. Thank you for your hint! :thumbsup:
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I have been using Robocopy for years and really have had no trouble with it. I run it from a scheduled batch file with a series of entries for each drive/directory combination I need. I back up 7x2TB drives to another 7x2TB drives each night using /MIR /XO to only copy updated files - sometimes it only takes a few minutes. I hadn't thought of using /XJ, it might save me some space and time on one of the backups.
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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Terracopy.
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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I have used Comodo Backup[^] in the past, and it worked just fine. It has very nice feature set.
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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I wrote this[^] more than 10 years ago - it's pretty basic (no scheduling :( ) but may be of help in a pinch. A full-feature one is in the works, but it will be a few months before it's available. /ravi
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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I gave up with external drives for backup. I use http://www.drobox.com[^] and I'm very happy with it. I had a couple of crashes recently and got all my data back very easily. Plus I can access my documents from anywhere. :)
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I gave up with external drives for backup. I use http://www.drobox.com[^] and I'm very happy with it. I had a couple of crashes recently and got all my data back very easily. Plus I can access my documents from anywhere. :)
do you mean dropbox.com?
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do you mean dropbox.com?
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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I've been using Cobian Back-up[^] for donkeys' yonks, because it's configuration is so easy and logical.
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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Syncback free is the perfect tool for this. Using this on multiple family/ friends computers for years. http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html[^]
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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robocopy with the /mir switch.
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Hello all, After asking here about a good tool to make some file copying, I've received wonderful answers from a lot of members here. At the end I've chosen Robocopy as [@Gary R. Wheeler](/Members/Gary R. Wheeler) has suggested. Thank you again Gary and thank you all for your posts, they are really interesting! ================================================================================ At our house computer (Windows 7) we have an USB external hard disk which is used to copy our documents and important files and have them in another physical disk (you know: just in case). Nowadays what I'm doing is something like: delete the second disk completely and then copying everything again to the second one. X| X| X| I hate doing that and I'm sure any method under the sun will be better. Now my question is: I would like to get something lightweight, that could be programmed to work each week or so and that would ensure that all the data would be updated on the backup folder. I’m not worried on the deleted files: if we delete one file we want it that way so it should be deleted also in the “backup”. What tool would you recommend, which configuration would you recommend and why? Thank you in advance! :thumbsup:
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A very old one I've used in the past: Karen's Replicator[^] For something written in VB6 it doesn't seem to work badly at all. Reasonably fast, not too resource hungry and once you've set it up - there's no user interruptions. Not saying it's "better" than any of the others, it probably isn't. But AFAICT it provides all needed functionality in a way that even a non-PC-litterate could get something going.
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c#, system.IO, Windows service SMACK ouch. I use windows backup but it is not what you are looking for. I don't know of any backup system that will remove deleted files from the repository. Sort of defeats the purpose of backup me thinks!
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I don't plan to automate it... so I would only make the backup once needed (which is each time I add some pictures to the HDD). Using Robocopy (which I've already tried) it's a breeze and really fast so I've chosen that option. Thank you! :thumbsup:
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FreeFileSync http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/[^] is very good. Can be used to sync two folders, or to mirror one folder to another. It's similar to SyncToy mentioned by others, but has the advantage that it uses Volume Shadow Copy to copy files in use, which SyncToy does not (I believe). The "preview" window allows you to see what files will be copied and make changes if needed. Or you can run it in batch mode. One disadvantage of FreeFileSync is that it uses the SourceForge installer, so during install you have to look for and turn off the option to install some other piece of crap-ware.
Looks nice, I've gone with Robocopy, it works, shows the amount of errors at the end and it's blazingly fast. Enough for my needs. But thank you, I'll keep an eye to it, it seems nice and sometimes you need a GUI to work with something as the user is not tech-savy. :thumbsup:
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Terracopy.
I guess you mean Teracopy[^]. Looks good, but time ago I tried it and even it worked well it was not as fast as they were telling... probably something wrong in my PC... Have not thought on that, but I'll stay with robocopy. Thank you! :thumbsup:
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I have used Comodo Backup[^] in the past, and it worked just fine. It has very nice feature set.
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I'll keep robocopy as it is already installed on my W7 computer and it does what I need (simple copy to an external HDD). Anyway, that tool seems really powerful. Looks good, I'll keep an eye on it. Thank you! :thumbsup:
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I wrote this[^] more than 10 years ago - it's pretty basic (no scheduling :( ) but may be of help in a pinch. A full-feature one is in the works, but it will be a few months before it's available. /ravi
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I'll stick with Robocopy, but this looks promising. Will you make an article of it? Thank you for the suggestion! :thumbsup:
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I don't plan to automate it... so I would only make the backup once needed (which is each time I add some pictures to the HDD). Using Robocopy (which I've already tried) it's a breeze and really fast so I've chosen that option. Thank you! :thumbsup:
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Excellent, a useful bit of research, I think I'll just tag along with the same implementation :)
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I gave up with external drives for backup. I use http://www.drobox.com[^] and I'm very happy with it. I had a couple of crashes recently and got all my data back very easily. Plus I can access my documents from anywhere. :)
Even remote backup seems a good idea (and it is indeed) I don't feel really comfortable uploading all my pictures, videos and documents to a place where anyone could see them... I guess that no one would be interested on my pr0n neither on my plans to attack several countries, but imagine that could happen... :rolleyes: Seriously, it is a good option, but to get it working properly you need a good speed rate and at our place it is not possible to get it so I prefer something local. Thank you! :thumbsup: PS: just in case somebody here (which is important) or someone at the NSA or similar (which is not) have not understood that the phrase about pr0n and so is a joke they should visit a psychologist.
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I've been using Cobian Back-up[^] for donkeys' yonks, because it's configuration is so easy and logical.
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Thank you Mark, but I'll keep the robocopy tool, it has been a breeze to setup, it is blazingly fast and makes what should do for me. Oh, and it is already installed in all Win7 computers so... Thank you again for your suggestion! :thumbsup:
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robocopy with the /mir switch.
Yepo, that's the one I've chosen after the suggestions. Thank you! :thumbsup:
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