The art of being in sync
Don't worry this has nothing to do with the band. One of the big challenges of working with lots of data on lots of projects and traveling is keeping everything you need available to you everywhere you go. And now that you can build terrabyte drive arrays for what a 128 meg ram stick cost a decade ago the data amounts have only grown. For instance I want everything I do on my laptop on the road to sync up to what I will be doing on my workstation in my home office and when I go into work I want to make sure that all the data from those two sources updates whats at the office. Ultimately I also want a safe offline backup of everything on a regular basis.
I discovered a handy tool a few years ago that i use daily now and a lot of my friends now use it on my recommendation and love it. Its called Vice Versa . The software allows me to automatically sync all my machines to each other. It even tracks file deletions so if I clean up my files on one machine the other machines will also have the same cleanups performed. You can even track file changes in real time so that as a file is added, updated or changed the changes are immediately mirrored to the other machines. This system can even mirror files you are currently using. Trust me if you have to do any kind of mirroring/backup/archival check this tool out. Its cheap too.
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Posted by Cy_Shuster on 12/16 at 11:10 PMIf you want automatic backups, don't propagate file deletions! I've used replication in Lotus Notes, and there can be lots of unintended consequences until you get the hang of it...
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Posted by visualz on 12/12 at 10:19 AMi concur! this is one of the best apps out there. its currently restoring my home raid5 vault and it is saving me, quite literally, days of file transfers. this thing pays for itself REAL quick, if you believe time=money.
//garyD
//garyD
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