Need simple/free photo backup utility

net1994

I will be buying two external HDs to store parts of my photo collection. I am buying two of the exact same drives and will need to mirror them, sort of a ‘soft mirror.’ I do not have a program or utility that can do what I need and no hardware raid. Looking for a program that can:

-Detect when both drives are on. If new material is found on drive A then copy new content to drive B. Maintain same filename and folder structure.

-Perhaps an exclusion list so I can opt out selected folders from being copied over.

Any of you folks know of a program or utility that can do this for free?

Thanks!!

iotashan

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

net1994

iotashan wrote:

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

I don't have a mac.... Cant use this.

Richard

net1994 wrote:

I don't have a mac.... Cant use this.

Check out SyncBack. They offer a free version that should cover basic needs. I use the $30 version and it is great.

Micah Wittman

For what's probably the defacto file system backup/mirroring, Richard's suggestion of SyncBack is right on.

A free, non-commerical application to look at is DeltaCopy http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp . I've used it. It's more backup than mirroring oriented. Aspects of configuring your backupset are definitely not intuitive, but it gets the job done.

All the best.

pathfinder

iotashan wrote:

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

That is what I use also.

jogle

Microsoft have a very good little syncing app called synctoy

http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/synctoybeta.aspx

jfriend

Richard wrote:

Check out SyncBack. They offer a free version that should cover basic needs. I use the $30 version and it is great.

SyncBackSE is what I use - reliable and well worth it. I sync my photos (and other documents) to another set of internal hard drives and to some external hard drives so I have three sets of everything.