Language: English
License: FreeWare / Install / System
Requires: Win7/XP/2003/Vista
Size: 136 KB
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Release Date: 2010-2-8 9:16:46
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Product Description
Data loss is probably the single most traumatic experience possible
for those that store their data electronically. In recent years, I
have had the good fortune to be spared of this event, touch wood, but
I will be forever mourning the loss of the first computer game I
wrote, back in the early 90¡¯s on a Mac SE/30. It was a hypercard
stack, 2.1 Mb in size, so I couldn¡¯t back it up on a single floppy.
Eventually, the 40Mb HDD in that great machine died, and I was
crushed. Years of work, all that creativity, a window on my teenage
years. Gone.
But it was just a game after all. Recently a friend of mine lost
pretty much all the photos of their first born child (3 months worth)
due to a botched home server upgrade. Crushing.
We all know the answer is backup, but many people just don¡¯t get
around to it, thinking, ¡®yeah I should do that¡¯. Like many people, I
have a server at home (Gentoo linux) that is my firewall, dhcp server
etc. and of course file server. I have a 4.5Tb RAID5 (7 x 750Gb
drives) which is about 80% full of data that I¡¯ve amassed over the
years. At the moment there are only two clients ¨C a desktop for
everyday use, and a media centre hooked up to the TV. Even though I do
have some level of data redundancy since I am using RAID5, data loss
will still occur if more than one HDD fails.
The Folder Mirror application was designed to be a small utility that
batch creates copies of folders, including subfolders, as a background
process.
Whilst copying, a dynamically updating system tray icon is displayed
to reflect percent complete of the copy operation. It is suited to
being used as a scheduled backup task between computers.
To configure which folders to mirror, the program reads a file called
folderMirror.config, in which you can define as many folders to copy
as desired. The utility is designed to be used as part of a scheduled
backup, such as a scheduled task.
I have it running every day, creating a mirror of the data I care most
about on the two client computers. So now my chances of losing data
due to HDD failure have been cut down to managable odds, and I can
sleep much easier.