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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: **SPAM** [OM] Re: SyncBack, was Re: **SPAM** Re: Back up your data.
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>>Thanks to Tom for recommending SyncBack. It's far superior in function
>>and interface to the other backup software I was using... not to mention
>>that it's free.
>>
>>
> Ad thanks Chuck, too, for reminding me to check it out. I was going to
> get back to Tom's post, but hadn't yet.
>
>>I should have picked up from the name that SyncBack also does
>>synchronization between drives/folders. What I had been using,
>>"12 Ghosts backup", did synchronization but not in such a way as to be
>>able to maintain a mirror of another drive. With "12 Ghosts backup" if
>>you try to back up all of drive X to drive Y you end up with a folder on
>>Y named "X_" that contains all of X. With SyncBack drive Y is a
>>faithful copy of X (assuming you've set the parameters that way).
>>
>>
> Yes, that's terrific! I just synced my primary and backup directories of
> images from the 300D. I have this unfortunate tendency to get a bit lost
> in the file viewer in PS and work sometimes on one disk and sometimes on
> the other, i don't mean to, but..... Anyway, SyncBack took care of that
> very quickly and easily. Excellent!
>
Moose
Glad I could help. It also supports backing up to an FTP server. I use it
to keep my website current. When I make changes locally, it updates the
site!
Tom
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