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DeanCapture · 11-30-2008, 03:46 PM

I have a couple of small 250GB USB hard drives that I'm using to store content on. One is primary, one is secondary and another one for even more insurance. What is a good mirroring utility so that I can make sure all these drives have the same content on them? I want to have 3 copies of everything

borked · 11-30-2008, 03:48 PM

RAID?

or rsync stuff to them periodically

DeanCapture · 11-30-2008, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by borked

RAID?

or rsync stuff to them periodically

No raid. I'll just want to hook them up ever so often and sync them up.

borked · 11-30-2008, 03:51 PM

#!/bin/sh

usr/bin/rsync -vrltH -pgo -z -D <source> <destination>

will allow you to sync...

HorseShit · 11-30-2008, 03:54 PM

Dean - well guess you won't be using Windows soon but it has a built in back up system for local drives that can mirror them and you can set them up to do it automatically every so often with the task scheduler. I know you can do this on a Mac too, especially with a simple script and a cronjob.

borked · 11-30-2008, 03:56 PM

you can this on mac to one of the drives (primary to secondary) using timemachine. Then script the one to the 3rd disk...

DeanCapture · 11-30-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jdavis

Dean - well guess you won't be using Windows soon but it has a built in back up system for local drives that can mirror them and you can set them up to do it automatically every so often with the task scheduler. I know you can do this on a Mac too, especially with a simple script and a cronjob.

I don't plan on leaving windows....just broadening my horizons

LiveDose · 11-30-2008, 04:41 PM

I use Ghost personally. Recommended everytime I have asked this same question.

Dean are you allowed to start threads without posting a pic or two? I think we have rules around here... :-P

RedShoe · 12-01-2008, 02:10 AM

DC, when you go HD, 250s quickly become a thing of the past welcome to the wonderful world of TBs. I have clients now dropping off 1.5TBs

250s... LOL!!! You're funny.

Thomas007 · 12-01-2008, 05:23 AM

For windows, we use SyncToy.

It's a free application from Microsoft.
It's only purpose is to sync folders, that be on the same disk or different disks.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

DamianJ · 12-01-2008, 06:40 AM

For Mac, use SuperDuper.

Excellent app.

11-30-2008, 03:46 PM	#1
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11-30-2008, 03:48 PM	#2
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borked Totally Borked Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 6,284	#!/bin/sh usr/bin/rsync -vrltH -pgo -z -D <source> <destination> will allow you to sync... __________________ For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com (consider figuring out the email as test #1) All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202 Last edited by borked; 11-30-2008 at 03:52 PM..

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borked Totally Borked Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 6,284	you can this on mac to one of the drives (primary to secondary) using timemachine. Then script the one to the 3rd disk... __________________ For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com (consider figuring out the email as test #1) All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202

11-30-2008, 04:41 PM	#8
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11-30-2008, 03:54 PM	#5
HorseShit Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 17,513	Dean - well guess you won't be using Windows soon but it has a built in back up system for local drives that can mirror them and you can set them up to do it automatically every so often with the task scheduler. I know you can do this on a Mac too, especially with a simple script and a cronjob.

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12-01-2008, 06:40 AM	#11
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