mi-scha opened this issue on Dec 15, 2001 ยท 5 posts
mi-scha posted Sat, 15 December 2001 at 12:17 PM
After my nearly fatal disaster with Windows XP I want to evaluate some backup mechanisms. I'm in particular interested in an (extern) harddisk. Now comes my question: Has anybody some positive experience with an software to synchronize folders?
SAMS3D posted Sat, 15 December 2001 at 12:46 PM
Why what happened with your XP? Sharen
mi-scha posted Sat, 15 December 2001 at 3:04 PM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=492980
Gladly nothing happend with my XP, aside from some more grey hair on my head. Follow the link to C&D.
leather-guy posted Sat, 15 December 2001 at 3:40 PM
mi-scha I've got XP on my new VAIO. When it comes factory installed on a new PC from a major brand name vendor, they take care of the activation at the factory. I chose an external hard drive for backup. Bought an external firewire enclosure, popped a (formatted) 120 Gig Western Digital in it. - Works flawlessly so far. Reviewed 12-15 software apps for backup. Settled on InSync Directory Syncronizer. (Shareware, downloaded from ZDNet, & registered online after about 2 days of testing). Once configured, it copies all your chosen folders to the backup drive. Once they're there, every time it runs, it adds any new files, deletes any that've been deleted from the original, and updates any that have changed. With the firewire drive, it works pretty quickly for updates. Was this the info you wanted?
mi-scha posted Sun, 16 December 2001 at 11:53 AM
Thanks leather-guy, I will give it a try.