I just bought a 2TB drive for my fiancee’s computer. What I want to do is continuously copy my music from my 2TB drive to her 2TB drive over my network. I want the folder and file structure to stay the same, so I can’t backup to a single file like a “.bckp” file for example. The original 750+GB transfer I’m going to throw in my case (hot swap bays FTW) and transfer the bulk that way. I’m always adding to my collection so I’ll need to sync those changes to her computer. Just trying to think of the best way to schedule a transfer.
Possibly something like SyncToy?
I’d also be willing to make a “off site” backup for Speeders pending you provide the storage and give me the time to do it.
In. Might be giving you a drive soon. I’ve used a batch script in the past to duplicate but that was 2 internal drives in same tower. I’m just going to get a nas box I think…run raid and make it low power web accessible.
My friend has this and it’s pretty slick. My concern/issue with mirrored raid has always been if the NAS chassis dies you can’t just pull a drive and readily have your data.
Make sure wake on lan is enabled on the destination PC and make sure you check the option to wake the computer from sleep in the scheduled task settings on the source PC.
This probably would be your best native windows tool, beyond that rsync/rdiff-backup would be best which I am pretty sure there are native win32 binaries for both.
I’ve always used a free program called Karen’s Replicator for this. Super easy, has built in scheduling, lots of options, and can sync two way if you want. Use it to keep my music consistent on 3 PC’s.
Teracopy is ok but i’m pretty sure it doesn’t do what you’re looking for. For example if you move a file, the computer your copying to will have two copies.
No teracopy replaces the default Windows copy/paste. I have both music drives in my local machine now to do the initial 770GB transfer. Tomorrow I’ll put it in my fiancee’s machine.
This copies all files and the folder structure. It also does a purge or delete if any deletions take place on the source. It’s a scheduled task to run at 10pm
Bump…Doing Robocopy on my local network now…works fine.
NOW, things will get tricky. Gus and I want to be able to sync the drives back and forth, obviously from remote locations. Speed shouldn’t be a factor since this will be incremental. Any songs added on my drive should be synced to his, and vice versa. I’d like this to occur with almost no interaction if possible. Any ideas?
