Backup Synchronisation

mp3guy

Currently I use my laptop as my primary computer, I store all my media, documents and other data on it. I have an old pentium 4 that sits idle under my desk that I power up every now and then to play some old games, and it's got a 160gb hard drive.

Earlier this year I backed up my files from my laptop onto it's hard drive. Basically I'm looking for a program I can use to "Synchronise" the backups of select folders whenever I want to run it. Both computers are on my home wifi network, and no I don't mind how slow it is for backing up.

So the ideal situation; once a month I have both computers powered up, I run this back up program, and it automatically copies any new files in certain folders on my laptop onto the pentium 4 over the wifi network.

What would people recommend?

Biggins

One of the best tools there is:


Acronis True Image 12

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Gadgetman496

mp3guy wrote: »

Currently I use my laptop as my primary computer, I store all my media, documents and other data on it. I have an old pentium 4 that sits idle under my desk that I power up every now and then to play some old games, and it's got a 160gb hard drive.

Earlier this year I backed up my files from my laptop onto it's hard drive. Basically I'm looking for a program I can use to "Synchronise" the backups of select folders whenever I want to run it. Both computers are on my home wifi network, and no I don't mind how slow it is for backing up.

So the ideal situation; once a month I have both computers powered up, I run this back up program, and it automatically copies any new files in certain folders on my laptop onto the pentium 4 over the wifi network.

What would people recommend?

AllwaySync is excellent & it's free provided your not using it for too much data.

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