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Automatic copying between two external SSD hard drives

NEOPHYTE4 Posted messages 234 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
steph810 Posted messages 1865 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Good evening,

How can files or folders be automatically copied between two SSDs of the same capacity (2 TB). My goal is to create clones of each of the two hard drives. For example, if I save a file on disk n°1, it is saved immediately on disk n°2.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards

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    brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
     

    Hello,

    I don’t see how we can do this unless I’m talking nonsense about RAID disks; externally you need specialized disks, it costs money.

    Regarding external disks and thus probably data, we probably need to rely on incremental backup that we plan to do from one to the other, but not in real time. If it’s every 30 minutes or every hour, that would already waste resources and risk missing files in use, rather than doing it once a day.

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  2. georges97 Posted messages 14579 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 924
     

    Good evening,

    The software available for download on CCM:

    https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/securite/21479-syncbackse/

    seems to match your request.

    For people who are not familiar with these concepts, it is therefore important to properly understand the specifics of synchronization vs backup, which you can explore in the tutorials linked below;

    https://www.malekal.com/syncbackfree-synchronisation-de-fichiers/

    https://www.extranet.ma-sauvegarde.com/multimedia/doc/2016-10-19-Synchronisation_avec_SyncBack_Free.pdf

    https://www.2brightsparks.com/assets/pdf/SyncBackSEFrench.pdf

    https://sospc.name/syncback-free/

    note: there are several paid versions from this publisher, more complete ones.

    https://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html site in English

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       

      Hello,

      Yes, why not, I had forgotten about that one, I do it via script without software.

      I don’t know, though, to be checked, what possibly differentiates the free version from the paid version in terms of synchronization settings.

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      1. georges97 Posted messages 14579 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 924 > brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        Good evening, I used this software a few years ago, then, through carelessness, I didn’t reinstall it when I had to switch to a new PC. I plan to do it once I’ve finished transferring and organizing to my latest machine. But I’ll use it as a backup since I don’t need synchronization. The English site offers a few differentiating elements between the different versions, but I remember studying at the time a very complete comparison table on the publisher’s site. I didn’t search for it, but I had been convinced of the value of the paid versions, including an enterprise version for advanced use.
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  3. steph810 Posted messages 1865 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   152
     

    Robocopy can do that.

    Just need to know which file or folder to copy and create a task in Windows

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    1. georges97 Posted messages 14579 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   2 924
       

      The initial request concerns cloning, which I interpreted (perhaps wrongly) as synchronization. Perhaps NEOPHYTE will want to reclassify his request.

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    2. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       
      Good evening, Negative. As I said in <3>, I myself use a script for incremental data backup, and only data; you cannot synchronize programs and system data — that would be cloning, more like a backup, and not via ROBOCOPY but via XXCOPY, which is essentially the same with simpler syntax and, beyond the simple incremental backup questions, a greater richness of switches. But in any case, and as I said in <1>, the script will not run by the operation of the Holy Spirit, even though I could schedule repeated executions every 5 minutes in the task scheduler; the least we can do is not.
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    3. NEOPHYTE4 Posted messages 234 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   47 > brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      Hello Brucine,

      Sorry for the late response.

      I downloaded Robocopy, but it’s very complex to use and on top of that it’s in English, and at my age I don’t learn English anymore.

      As for xxcopy, I didn’t find it.

      Thank you anyway for this help.

      Best regards

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    4. brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169 > NEOPHYTE4 Posted messages 234 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      Hello,

      When you don’t want to bother with display frills, the ROBOCOPY incremental backup is limited to:

      ROBOCOPY "source path" "destination path" /MIR

      XXCOPY, that’s where the commands are also in English like all the DOS commands and it must be installed via the included script install.bat:
      https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/xxcopy,1.html

      and this time it is written as:

      XXCOPY "source path" "destination path" /CLONE /YY

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    5. NEOPHYTE4 Posted messages 234 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   47 > brucine Posted messages 24845 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       

      Hello Brucine,

      here is what I get after decompression:

      • install
      • readme
      • uixxcopy
      • xcpy_pad
      • xxconsole
      • xxcopy
      • xxcopy
      • xxcopysu
      • xxpbar64

      I tried the different applications, but I get no results

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