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zvar:
Personally I use Always Sync.
It's located at http://www.alwayssync.com/
Free for non-commercial use (although how it tells is by the amount of data synced, so if you are moving large amounts of data around it may want you to pay for it.)
No spyware included (according to ad-aware and spybot) and fairly easy to use.

Steven

xteeejx:
Just got the drives in the mail yesterday,  I'm gonna try a couple of these out, thanks a lot guys.  By the way, do any of these programs, compress the backed-up data?

Thanks
-TJ

krick:

--- Quote from: zaphod on March 23, 2006, 01:57:39 pm ---Another option, albeit verrrry unglamorous.  My Windows drive gets Ghosted but I also have a few key directories that I back up nightly, using just a scheduled DOS batch program.  Plain old XCOPY works great.  With the proper switches it will do exactly what you are asking. 

An example of the Xcopy command, with the switches you'd need:
xcopy <from dir> <backup_dir> /s /k /d /y

For me, it works great and runs in the middle of the night.  The amount of data that changes daily is relatively small so the jobs run quite fast.

--- End quote ---


XXCOPY is better and much more flexible than XCOPY...
http://www.xxcopy.com/

It's unbelievably powerful.


darthbane2k:
this thread prompted me to buy a drive.
I put it in my master pc mobile rack and installed acronis image/ghosting software on the arcade pc. I ghosted the C:drive to an image file and sent that file across my wireless network to my backup hdd - now im backing up the G: drive on the arcade PC which holds all the emus and roms - this is taking me ages! Im backing up to the new drive wirelessly and its been near 7 hours so far with another 6 to go!

My poor arcade PC has been on all night and all day - marquee light cant be independantly switched off!! But I managed to switch the monitor off.

Am I harming my poor arcade PC??!!

zaphod:

--- Quote from: darthbane2k on March 31, 2006, 05:56:50 am ---
Am I harming my poor arcade PC??!!

--- End quote ---

No.  Why would using your PC be 'harming it?'

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