Sync'ing folders between multiple PCs.

[Kelemvor]

I saw a thread on just sync'ing up two folders but here's what I want to do. I'm not sure if I can use the same programs mentione din the other thread.

I want to sync up all of my picture files so there is a local copy on 4 PCs on my network.

The PVR PC would be the central PC to sync with. The others are 2 laptops and a desktop.

Basically, I want to plug the camera into any of the 3 PCs and download the pictures. I then want that PC to sync itself with the PVR PC and upload whatever is new. Then when either of the other two is booted up, I want them to automatically check the PVR PC to see if anything new has been added. Nothing would ever be transfered from the camera directly to the PVR machine, but I want each PC to have a local copy so they can still use all the pictures when NOT connected to the network.

Does that make sense? What's the easiest way to do this?

Oh yeah, it has to be free.

 

[JackMDS]

Vice Versa can do amazing things,

Download a trial and try, it can create batch like files that can execute multiple sync. manually or under schedule.

http://www.tgrmn.com/ (top right of the page).


This page can reflect some of the things it can do, http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/category7.htm

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Just finished doing something like this with my documents and projects. Using Apache HTTP Server & Subversion & Tortoise SVN.

After setting it up, you create a repository (basically a central place for storing your data), and then you check-out that data on your machines. So you would setup the repository on a file server or main computer, and check out the documents to all the other computers. When you add any files to any machine, just commit the changes, and it updates the repository. Next time you are on another machine, update the check-out, and it will have all of the files.