Comparing Folders

[Weezy]

Hey guys, hoping you can help. I'm not super tech advanced, as you'll see in a sec. I have manually been backing up a couple of folders (old school copy and paste) and I know I missed a bunch of files. How can I best compare the folders to see which files I missed? Then, which back up programs are easy to use so I no longer need to copy/paste as I go?

Thanks in advance!

[LWM723]

DSynchronize.

[OhioYJ]

I use scripts do backup everything, primarily using robocopy in Windows, rsync in Linux.

 

Here is an example of robocopy from Windows, this will make make  Q: amd M: exactly the same. It will remove files from M: that have been deleted on Q:. Robocopy only changes updated, or new files, so it skips files that are new.

 

robocopy Q: M: /xf /E /PURGE /R:2 /W:2 /TIMFIX

 

I use xcopy for when I don't want windows to remove files (only copy changed files, but don't delete things):

 

xcopy Q: M: /d /y /r /h /s /c /f /i

 

And an rsync example from one of my Linux scripts (similar to the robocopy command above):

 

rsync -avih --progress --delete-during "/source/" "/destination/"

[lafrente]

Give the folders same name and copy. If it finds the same file just say no to all conflicts and it will only copy missing items.

[LogicalDrm]

FreeFileSync. You can use it to setup automatical syncing too, I mainly use it manually.