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Software to monitor and copy files from drive to drive


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I am looking for some software (free or paid) that will monitor one drive for changes such as a file or folder being added and then the software will then copy those news files to another hard drive.

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I second SyncToy, I use it to backup photos to a NAS box from my Home Server directories. Very good MS app.

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I have used Robocopy for similar work. It depends on the type of files though.

If a file has a write lock, Robocopy will wait for the lock to release before continuing which might rule it out >.<

Robocopy is built into Windows Vista and above :)

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Or maybe Dropbox - yes I know it's not exactly what was requested but it does have the benefit of an offsite backup.

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robocopy is the perfect tool for this it has /mon and /mot modes

/MON:n :: MONitor source; run again when more than n changes seen.

/MOT:m :: MOnitor source; run again in m minutes Time, if changed.

If there is a write lock on the file - why would you want to copy it?

Simple command to run -- nothing else to install, etc.

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