directory mirroring need

[dabuddha]

I tried searching the forums but couldn't find anything that answered what I'm looking for (of course my search skills could be lacking 😀 )

I have a disk mounted on my windows box (from my NAS) and I want a specific directory on my local machine to be mirrored to the NAS box. Is there an automated way to do this and if not, is there a good opensource program that I can use to do a sync with the directory?

TIA!

 

[VirtualLarry]

rsync?
RoboCopy?

 

[Elixer]

What exactly are you looking for? If the NAS is always on, you can create a simple junction to the directory on the NAS.
You can also use MS's SyncToy, or as VirtualLarry mentioned, setup a chron job (err scheduled task) and use rsync or... to mirror it ever 5 mins or whatever.

It really depends on what your needs are.

 

[Wallywest]

I use Freefilesync. It's freeware and easy to set up.

 

[dabuddha]

The NAS is always on. I did try Freefilesync but i dunno, it just made me nervous (because I was always afraid I might accidentally delete my primary copy). These are really critical files relating to my custody battle so I'm always afraid of accidentally wiping something out (I keep an offsite backup as well on a USB thumb drive lol)

how would a junction work?

 

[Elixer]

The NAS is always on. I did try Freefilesync but i dunno, it just made me nervous (because I was always afraid I might accidentally delete my primary copy). These are really critical files relating to my custody battle so I'm always afraid of accidentally wiping something out (I keep an offsite backup as well on a USB thumb drive lol)

how would a junction work?

Basically, when you set up a junction, your files are actually on the NAS, but a virtual copy is where ever you stuck the junction.
This will NOT prevent deleting files or data getting corrupted by whatever means.

Dunno if you want to go this far, but, I would place all my files under version control, using git
Once that is done, on every modification of the file, you "commit" the new version into your local git repo, and that commit you can enter a log message about what you changed, or other data you want to remember.
What this does is, even if you physically delete the file, you can still go back to the last version that you had committed into your local repo.
If you want more protection, you can setup a private repository on bitbucket, and then you would 'push' your changes to that, so, you will end up with a private repository that is automatically backed up by bitbucket, you will have a local repository as well, and you can sync them anytime you want.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm always afraid of accidentally wiping something out

It sounds like you should also be taking snapshots of the folder with Windows' send to > compressed file (Zip) or with 7-zip, for example as "Snapshot 2017-01-06". Copy those snapshots to backups including offsite.

If the backups aren't too big (say under 50 MB) or if you have a fast upload connection then you might also upload them to Amazon cloud storage. Once you have the account and storage area set up, Cloudberry Explorer can do this with a simple Explorer-style "Copy."