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synchronise folders between hard drive and external drive

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how do I synchronize folders on the hard drive to folders on an external drive. so that any additions to either drive will be copied across to the external, like a backup system?

thanks

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W. Prins (wprins) said : 		#1

There are many ways, how exactly will depend on your goal. If you want a GUI interactive tool you might consider installing GRSync. (Look for "grsync" in the Synaptic package manager.) The project's homepage is here: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#2

A number of different synchronization tools for linux can be found here
http://linuxappfinder.com/backupandrecovery/filesynchronizing

Hope this helps

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Simon (sendsimonmail) said : 		#3

thanks!

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, ByteJuggler
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> ByteJuggler proposed the following answer:
> There are many ways, how exactly will depend on your goal. If you want
> a GUI interactive tool you might consider installing GRSync. (Look for
> "grsync" in the Synaptic package manager.) The project's homepage is
> here: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
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Simon (sendsimonmail) said : 		#4

thanks!

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Wyatt Smith
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> Your question #51993 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
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>
> Wyatt Smith proposed the following answer:
> A number of different synchronization tools for linux can be found here
> http://linuxappfinder.com/backupandrecovery/filesynchronizing
>
> Hope this helps
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W. Prins (wprins) said : 		#5

You might want to mark this question as solved, thanks.

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