Synchronising files

[imported_rod]

Alright, here's my situation. I have a few computers on a network. My computer is in my bedroom, and my dad has the family computer in the study. There's a ~5GB MP3 collection on the family computer. My computer is running win2000pro, and dad's is running XP-home.

I want to set it up so that the MP3 collection is synchronised between the two computers, so when i add a file to the collection on my computer it gets added to the collection on the other computer, and vice-versa.

Anyone know how to do this? I was thinking of using the "My Briefcase" function in windows. Will this work? Are there any problems/dangers to setting it up this way? Is there a better/easier way?

Thanks ppl
RoD

 

[deadmantyping]

Yeah, if anybody knows how to go about synchronising files like this i would be interested to know as well, i would like to synchronize my documents, music and some of my program preferences between my desktop and my laptop.

 

[smthmlk]

rsync?

 

[imported_rod]

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ - I'm having a look at this now.

 

[KGB]

SynchBack

 

[Fraggable]

I'm using Syncback at home over a wireless network with a shared documents folder and it works great. Both the systems are on XP, one on Home and the other on Pro.

 

[jaykleg]

I downloaded and tested this beta PowerToy for Windows XP just to see if it would work for various friends who need to synchronize directories. It's about as easy as a manual system gets.

I use Beyond Compare from Scooter Software for my own systems.