Hi everyone,

I've just bought an USB external HD that I plan to use to keep a
backup of all my multimedia (mostly pics) that currently resides on my
pegasos.

Is there some utility to backup/synchronize the new files/drawers to
the HD? I'd rather use something that just copies the new/updated
files since I have around 40 GB of pics, and it takes AGES to copy
them all.

Thanks!

copy Media:pics/#? backup:media/pics/ all DONTOVERWRITE

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RSYNC for MOS would be cool.
If you have linux, you can use it.
It does a pretty good job, has mirror/diffcopy function and so on.

I've used UpDateCopy from Aminet... It's otherwise nice, but I'd also like similar program, which would delete the removed/renamed files too.. now the backup just grows :)

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Well, maybe somebody really should do RSYNC then.
Its a command line tool, so it shouldnt be to hard for somebody who knows what he is doing (not me :) )

There is also MirrorCopy, which I use myself and which works quite nicely.

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The main features of MirrorCopy are:

- The destination directory will contain exactly the same files
and subdirectories as the source directory - and nothing more!

- The attributes (date, comment and protection flags) of the
files and subdirectories in the destination directory are set
exactly to the same values as in the source directory.

- MirrorCopy takes care of what the destination directory allready
contains:
- only those files are copied, that need to be copied.
- only those subdirectories are created, that need to be created
- only those files and subdirectories are removed from the
destination directory, that need to be removed.
This is very usefull if you don't want to create a mirror copy,
but if you want to update an allready existing mirror copy.

- MirrorCopy can keep deleted or overwritten files in special
'deleted-/old-files' directories.

- The contents of the source directory is not changed in any way!
Not even the protection flags (like the archive flag) are changed.

I use FolderSync for several years now and it works fine for doing an daily update of my backup disk.

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If nothing is changed on doing a mirror, does the tool really notice if something is altered on the source hd? Mhh sounds a bit strange to me