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[DarkHorizons]

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone knows of an easy, and preferably free peice of software I can use to replicate the contents of a folder according to a schedule. Basically, I want to replicate data on a shared drive, to another shared drive on my network using my desktop as the transfer medium as I'm having great difficulty getting a LinkStation and TeraStation communicating with each other.

[+BudMan]

robocopy \\computername\source \\othercomputername\destination /mir

Its that simple!

or if you have them mapped to drive letters already

robocopy x:\sourcedir y:\destdir /mir

And next time you run it, it will only copy over changed or new files. And delete files that have are no longer in the source.

edit: robocopy is built into vista or w7, you can add it to xp if still running that. just google robocopy xp.

[g0dzilla]

+1 to this ^

You can then create batch scripts and create scheduled tasks in Windows to further automate this!

Nice and simple just using native Windows (Vista and Win 7 as pointed out above) tools and no third-party apps to complicate things...

[+BudMan]

you could even just use /mon or /mot parameters to have it sync on changes/new files or every so many minutes. Sure you could create a task to do it on a schedule as well. or just create a shortcut to command that runs it on demand from simple click, etc.

I agree - why add software when the functionality you seek is right there part of the os.

[xendrome]

xcopy c:\source d:\destination /c/h/e/f/r/s/v/k/y also works.. in a batch file, scheduled of course