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Questions tagged [syncback]

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Best way to synchronise photos to three machines. Laptop, Desktop, NAS

I'm using Picasa as my photo management software, and I have a collection of photos that gets downloaded from my cameras either onto my Desktop or onto my Laptop. I'd like to automatically have copies of all my photos on both my laptop, desktop and…
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How to diagnose incomplete Backups?

I have used both Acronis and Windows backup to take a backup and restore it to another computer. Both fail. When I do a count of the size of the restored files and the amount of them they are both lower on the new restore. I have also used Syncback…
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How To Backup System To External Source And Then Use Boot From It?

I know Windows 7 has built-in backup facility and i also am familiar with 2BrightSparks' SyncBackSE utility. I have questions about backing up sensitive information to external source and booting from it in case of emergency: If i backup with…
Boris_yo
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Acronis True Image vs SyncBack for Windows 7 / Windows XP backups

I have been using Acronis True Image Home for some time and I am generally happy with it. I did a quick search here and found that here Software to backup data and files on a Windows computer SyncBack beats True Image 18 to 3 (so to say). I am using…
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Restoring using SyncBack without profiles

I backed up my internal hard drive (C:) using SyncBack onto an external (USB) hard drive with maximum compression. I then performed a clean install of Windows Vista onto the computer. I forgot to copy the SyncBack logs before the clean install. …
Thomas Matthews
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Syncback: USB serial number in destination field?

In Syncback Pro, I created a profile that is triggered anytime an USB drive is inserted. How can I dynamically create destination folders, whose name is the USB drive serial number? This way I can get a different backup folder for any USB…
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How does SyncBack detect if two files are different?

I'm currently using SyncBack's free version, SyncBackFree, to mirror files from a LAN directory to a directory in my PC, after reading this SU post: How can I keep folders synchronized between several machines over my home network? I would like to…
galacticninja
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Can a file change size when the transfer protocol changes?

I am very curious about what I have just found happening on my computers. I have set up SyncBackPro to synchronize a music folder from my home desktop to my laptop using Windows network share (SMB). Files get synchronized regularly. Now I tried to…
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Windows 7 goes into standby while Syncback is working on a profile

Normally windows shouldn't go into standby mode until the profile has finished copying the files, but on this computer it does and afterwards a get a whole bunch of error message regarding the failed backup. What can i do? Using fresh installed…
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SyncBackPro command line hanging

I am trying to create a sync back pro profile that I can execute remotely via the command line. The profile runs correctly when used through the application UI and on the machines local command line, but when I try and execute it remotely via psexec…
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Copying Multiple Files at once

I have a huge storage that I need to duplicate to another storage. Both storages have 10G of NIC cards. So a good bandwidth. To do this I'm using SyncbackPro. But this is copying single file at a time. I did select the option to be multithreaded.…
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In a mirroring backup profile, what percentage of destination file deletions or changes should raise a red flag?

Syncback offers a setting to abort an unattended mirror backup if a percentage of files will be deleted or changed on the destination. Here are the settings available. I chose the settings shown based on what seems reasonable. Given other settings…
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