I am looking for a free automatic back up program to sync my thumb drive with a folder on my mac. What would be the best solution?
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Automatic back up program
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Carbon Copy Cloner is a wonderful little backup program. It's also free. It specializes in disk cloning and general backup, but it should be able to cope with the simple task you have for it.
Yes, true... but Time Machine isn't well-suited to small synchonization tasks like the one the OP is trying to do. For that purpose, programs like CCC are great.Well, in under a month, we will have Time Machine.
I went through the same thing a few weeks ago and found this free one from Lacie: http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/
It's called silverkeeper and does exactly what I need it to. You select the source (and set exceptions if their are folders under the source you don't want to backup) and the destination, and then let it rip. You can then save those settings as a "backup set" so the next time you launch it, you just need to click the "go" button.
I should note that it will work with any destination and that it is NOT lacie-specific. My external drive is actually a SimpleTech...
It's called silverkeeper and does exactly what I need it to. You select the source (and set exceptions if their are folders under the source you don't want to backup) and the destination, and then let it rip. You can then save those settings as a "backup set" so the next time you launch it, you just need to click the "go" button.
I should note that it will work with any destination and that it is NOT lacie-specific. My external drive is actually a SimpleTech...
I didn't know that that one was free... thanks for the link! I will add it to my list of free backup/synchronization/cloning programs for the Mac.