Backup software that compares existing files/organization?
 

I am looking for a backup software that will basically replicate the files and folder structure from the source drive to the target drive (backup) automatically or when needed.

For example, if I delete, move, or rename a file on the source drive, I would want it the be replicated on the target drive.

Right now I have been just copying and pasting files from one drive to the other and duplicating all actions (deleting, renaming, moving, organizing) which is rather tedious and annoying.

I don't mind paid software.

Hopefully someone knows something out there.

I'd go with a simple raid 1 config, but you can try these...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/
https://www.goodsync.com/
https://allwaysync.com/

"rsync" is free and specifically designed for this purpose. It's usually installed on Linux distributions out of the box.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

Given 2 servers:

rsync -avP [email protected]:/path/to/source/folder /path/to/destination/folder/

You can also do it within a computer as well if you have multiple drives.

rsync -avP /drive1/source/folder /drive2/destination/folder

Subsequent runs of the command will check modified dates and file checksums. From there it will only copy the changes. You can run it once a day or however often you want.

It's installed in OS X as well and can be used in the Terminal.

rsnapshot

Thanks for the suggestions. I have freefilesync running right now, will see how the results are :)

I'm using this, backs up to drives and FTP's https://www.2brightsparks.com/ does incremental and back up