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Rheilly Phoull wrote:

> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> 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.
>>
>>--
>>ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
>>
> 
> 
> You could also evaluate SuperFlexibleSynchroniser  try
> http://www.superflexible.com

I've been using Cobian Backup for a long time and find it excellent and 
very reliable:
http://www2.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cbu5.htm

I also find Microsoft's Robocopy to be excellent - especially if you 
need UNICODE support (which Cobian doesn't have). Comes in handy for 
syncing Japanese desktops.