Best way to continuously sync two external drives?

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  1. Sesshi, Sep 6, 2006

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    I'd like to have two identical external drives for storage, one of which will be my 'going away' drive - i.e. it gets removed on a regular basis. Both drives are 120Gb, both are formatted FAT32.

    I need something that'll keep the content of both drives synced in the background. Best solutions? Thanks
     
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  2. mkrishnan, Sep 6, 2006

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    It isn't possible to set them up as a Mirrored RAID and still use them with one of them disconnected, is it? That would be sweeeet. :)
     
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  3. Sesshi, Sep 6, 2006

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    What I need won't work in RAID. It's got to be proper comparison software.
     
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  4. blodwyn, Sep 6, 2006

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    Continuous sync'ing is a challenge, but you could set a frequent schedule for (i.e.) SuperDuper, Chronosync, etc. This would sync the 2 drives as frequently as you wanted
     
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