Automatic Copying of files every 1 hour

[trifekk]

Hi.
I have a MacBook Pro 2018 from MacOS Mojave.
I need to make a progressive copy of selected catalogs.
I would like to make a copy of the directory: / Applications / XAMPP / htdocs

do ~ / Library / Mobile \ Documents / com ~ apple ~ CloudDocs / MyFiles / ......

I need a copy done every 1 hour. Each copy can be saved in a separate directory.
Alternatively, they may be progressive copies (we only save the changed files).

Is it possible to do something like this?

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

Carbon Copy Cloner schedule should do this.

 

[hobowankenobi]

Carbon Copy Cloner schedule should do this.

Or any of the myriad of other good backup tools out there that provide for live backup with a schedule. GetBackup and SuperDuper and ChronoSync come to mind, but there are tons.

Time Machine could likely handle this too...for free. Worth checking out.

 

[SaSaSushi]

Backuplist+ is another excellent free option. However, I agree with the advice above and personally own and use Carbon Copy Cloner.

 

[chabig]

This might be something you could put together in Automator, then trigger each hour.

 

[trifekk]

Could you write to me how to run it in the Automator?

 

[chabig]

I'm sorry but I don't have the talent to do that. It sounds like you need some code to create progressive folders for the hourly copies. If you simply want the latest copy backed up, you would create a Calendar Alarm like this in Automator:

Then you schedule triggers in Calendar to make it work. I found an online tutorial that might help. Expect to experiment a lot until you get it to do what you want.

http://allgaierconsulting.com/techtalk/2014/1/22/automator-scheduling-workflows-to-run-automatically

 

[hobowankenobi]

Why not try Time Machine? Not much to do to setup, saves multiple versions automatically.

Backs up hourly, as long the target drive is available, plus easy to monitor in the menu bar.