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Originally Posted by adidasss
I seem to remember someone (Freebase?) saying something about an automatic backup of your music libraries to an external drive. I mentioned something about it to my boss and was wondering if someone could repeat/explain how that would work, the search brought up nout...
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I think I had mentioned Syncback in the past, although there are other programs out there that do the same thing.
It's basically a small program you download for free and you set up a backup profile, which allows you to select any directories on any drives as the source, and any directories on any other physical drive (like an external) as the destination. You run the backup profile and it will copy all the directories you specified into the destination, and they'll be set up in the same way.
After that, you create a synchronize profile, using the same source and destination, but this time you set it up so that when anything changes in either the source or the destination directories, running the profile applies those changes to both.
There are different ways you can set it up, but the idea is that any time you add new music (or whatever else) to the source, when the synchronize profile is run, just the new stuff gets added to the destination. And if something gets deleted from the source by accident, when the synchronize profile is run, the file(s) will be restored to the source.
There are different profiles you can set up, and you can also schedule them to run at certain times. Doing this will always ensure that you have a mirror copy of whatever directories (or even an entire drive) backed up on an external or other physical drive, should something happen.
If you're interested, here's a tutorial from their website:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/tutoria...tbackup/1.html
There are also other tutorials you can check out pertaining to different scenarios.