Best Backup/File Mirroring Software

[austin2118ace]

I currently use the default windows backup to do scheduled backups of data on drive to another Backup drive. However, It has several disadvantages:

• Slow
• Copies EVERYTHING again, regardless if it is changed or not.
• Stores backups in hundreds of zip files making access to the files difficult.

I want to know if there is a free software solution to mirror the files from a folder in my D: drive to a folder on the backup drive. It would need to run 24/7 and sync every change to the folder on D:

 

Thanks,

Austin

 

 

[austin2118ace]

8 minutes ago, thomasths27 said:

 

Well you could just go all out and do a raid setup. Or try to write a simple little bash file that just cp everything from a to b and looks beforehand  if a file already exists.

Luckily someone already made one.

https://gist.github.com/eurica/809110

Just change

set sourcedir=c:\projects

set destdir=g:\autobackups\projects

 

i thing this piece explains it self. Just change the path after the = to your liking. Dont forget to write paths in "" if the are spaces in some names like:

  "c:\users\what ever\projects"

This approach would work but will this run every time the source directory is updated? If a photo is put in folder A I would like it automatically synced to folder B. Also, if possible, if said file is removed I would like it removed from folder B. I just need a real time mirror kept of directory A for backup purposes.