Re: Synchronizing 2 computers ?

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From: Peter Curach (curach_p_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:39:51 +1000

Hi HAAK
I wanted 2 do something similar, but found nothing really reliable.
But this was about 2 years ago.

I did find some software on the net. Directory Compare and Synchronise and
Synchronize It! But I found them more trouble than it was worth. But then
again I was trying to synchronise more than 5GB of data (work/project) data.
In the end, I use a little piece of shareware called XXCOPY
(www.xxcopy.com). As I run my own business, I purchased it but it is free
for personal use.

XXCOPY is like the old DOS XCOPY command but with a lot more switches. I
use:
        xxcopy source destination
/s/e/v/y/tcc/da/bi/Foc:\copylog.txt/oNc:\errlog.txt

This copies sub-directories (/s), even empty ones (/e), verifies (/v), don't
stop for errors (/y), copies destination with same date/time stamp as
orginal (/tcc), only copies files which are older (/da) and files which do
not exist (/bi), create a log of files copied (/Foc:\copylog.txt) and create
an error log (/oNc:\errlog.txt)

IMPORTANT !!!
XXCOPY only copies it does not synchronise !!!

I be interested if you find anything that would be simple to use.

Peter

"HAAK" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1091e01c43fc4$32745080$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I am interested in synchronizing my office desktop (on a
> LAN) with my laptop (sometimes on the same LAN, sometimes
> on remote networks) and with my home office computer
> (cable modem). The office computer is behind a Cisco
> firewall. All computers are running XP Pro.
>
> I don't need to synch everything, just My Documents and
> Outlook .pst files to start.
>
> This is proving mroe complicated than I thought it would
> be. Is there a primer or walkthrough that you can
> recommend to help me get this going?
>
> Thanks!

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