Program for synchronizing folders or drives to back up my music

[black_magiic]

Heres the story I need a good program that will allow me to periodically allow me to synchronize the files in two drives. I want to have it so every day my mp3 collection gets updated on my back up external drive. I would like a program that can run at a certain time during the night lets say and update the folders so they are the same. Any reccomendations

[alfahwave]

this program should do the job for you:


SYNCHROMAGIC PRO
This indispensable utility performs foolproof
synchronization of files and directories, either one-way or
bi-directionally, with many useful options. Files/folders
can be easily synched from one computer to another, or from
one to several.

This is extremely usely for anyone using both a laptop and
a desktop computer who wants to keep their data files
synchronized between the two. It is also very usefully for
maintaining backups of data folders from one drive to
another.

Synchronization can be one-way or bi-directional, and can
be set to delete files on the destination directory which
are not present in the source directory. Synchromagic also
gives the option to transfer only if files are on target.

Tasks can also be performed over a local area network or
between FTP sites as well. The program can also be used to
create a mirror site for disaster recovery or to backup
files, directories, and even entire drives. Specific tasks
can also be saved and performed at the click of a button.
The program can also be used to backup files, directories,
as well as entire drives.

Synchromagic also features a handy separate ScanFolder
utility to compare directories to determine file byte
synchronization and directory comparison, and show at a
glance where all the data is stored.

Run Menu-command line support is included and integration
with Windows Task Scheduler. Schedule backup, restore or
mirror and shut down computer when task is complete. Advise
task with automatic email. New Silent Mode and
include/exclude operations available.

Synchromagic's user-friendly graphical interface is highly
intuitive, making it a simple and cost-effective way to
keep all your files, folders and systems synchronized.

Foreign language plugins are available for many popular
languages including Spanish, French, German, Italian and
many others


http://www.qfile.de/dl/104234/syncromatic.rar.html

[black_magiic]

that didnt seem to take me to anything useful. But thanks anyways. I googled a few programs but the one I found that did what I wanted didnt work right it detected my to identical folders as one being different by like 3GB or something when they were identical.

[cpugeniusmv]

Has everyone forgotten about "Briefcase" ?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307885&sd=tech

I use it on my thumbdrive to keep My Documents in sync on it.

[black_magiic]

thanks cpu Im trying that now, does anyone else have any suggestions?

[Sephiroth]

do a google search for a program called Syncback, itll do what you want it to do, plus its free.

You can set it up to do it manually or you can schedule it to sync automatically.