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Re: File synchronising across drives or directories

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From: Sido
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:01
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Hey Phred, I haven't used SyncBack but I have been using SmartSync Pro 
(http://www.smsync.com) for quite a while and am very happy with it. 
Highly recommended.

HTH
Sido.

ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote in news:2p6daoFhjfa3U1@uni-
berlin.de:

> G'day mates,
> 
> Just stumbled across a program called SyncBack being promoted in the 
> latest Tudogs newsletter to hit these shores, and that reminded me 
> that I still haven't managed to find a good, simple, file 
> synchronisation program like the old Australian Two Disks of a couple 
> of decades ago.  (It was actually meant for working with A: and B:, 
> but you could fool it into handling directories on C: to some extent 
> by judicious use of the current directory and the SUBST command -- all 
> said with that pervasive proviso "IIRC". 8-)
> 
> Has anyone tried this SyncBack thing?
> http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html
> 
> As common these days, it comes in two flavours: free and pro.
> (Or at least that appears to be the intention but the pro version is 
> still in development AFAICS on the site.)
> 
> The free version has the decency to provide a "no install" option, 
> which is encouraging in these times of bloated rude software.
> 
> I'd be pleased to hear of any user experience with the product (now at 
> version 3.2 by the look of it).
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Cheers, Phred.
> 
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