![]() If there’s a disaster that wipes out all your home electronics, like a lighting strike or transformer failure that overpowers your surge protectors, or a fire, you’ll be restoring your files to all new hardware. You might want to check and make sure that the backups you’re doing from your NAS box are in a standard format. Your backup workflow sounds great, except for one thing that makes me nervous. Most important functions are actually present in the free version, but there is a “professional” version available for a small fee. It does not have advanced server functions, but for backing up a workstation or laptop, especially one that is not running 24/7, it may be worth a look. The other usual scheduling, synching and backup functions one would expect are also present. I also run an additional backup to an external HD from the NAS with the built in backup SW.Īnyway, the program has been mostly trouble free for me. ![]() That way – hopefully – accidental deletions should be caught in time. ![]() I have also set it up to keep locally deleted files on the NAS for ~2 months and ask me after that whether I really want to delete them from the backup. are backed up right away and automatically. That way all edited pictures, recent imports, etc. Since my workflow is built around Lightroom, I have it set up that it starts a sync when I close Lightroom. What I like about it most is that it can be set up to start a sync run when a program is closed. I use it to sync the dedicated photography drive on my PC to my NAS. I have been using PureSync ( ) for a while with good results. I recommend it if you’re looking for a synch program to run on a Windows or Apple workstation. GoodSync has a web server like VV Engine, but you don’t need to use it.Īll in all, GoodSync is a pretty powerful program wrapped in a nice user interface, with well-chosen defaults so you don’t have to deal with the complexity if you don’t want to. You can set GS to automatically start whenever your OS does. If you use GS on the workstations to push and VV on the server for third-party and local backup, as I do, you’ll be backing up those now-useless state files, but they’re small and won’t hurt anything. For backup, this is not strictly necessary, but it does save time, and GoodSync’s analysis runs a bit faster than VV’s. You may be thinking, “What’s this state file?” GoodSync stores information about the directory structure and synch state right in folders it’s synching. You get real-time information on what’s happening: You can indulge your inner programmer and write scripts:Īnd there are plenty of head-scratching advanced options: There are also welcome options for what to do in the event of conflicts. Using this option could prevent complete deletion of your backup caused by changes in your directory structure. There is one feature that I like that VV doesn’t have: the ability to abort a run if more than a certain percentage of the files have changed. The scheduling options are comprehensive. The next set of choices involve scheduling: Note that GS will clean up old copies of deleted or changed files automatically: The options and filters are similar to VV, except that there aren’t sub-folder filtering options. Here’s the main window, with your backup jobs accessible in tabs running across the upper part of the screen, changes in the middle, and a log at the bottom: The user interface is more polished than VV. ![]() Like Vice Versa, it has more synch modes than you’ll need for backup. GoodSync is more conventional than Vice Versa in that the scheduler is combined with the synch program, making it more intuitive and in some ways easier to use than Vice Versa. Since the Vice Versa Windows Server version is up to the task of backing up a handful of workstations, NAS boxes, and other servers, I see no reason to spend so much more money on a server-side syncher. There is a Windows Server version aimed primarily at pull synching from workstations, which I haven’t tried because it costs close to a thousand bucks. GoodSync runs on both Windows and Apple workstations. Imagine the meetings at which the product marketing folks rejected AverageSync, SoSoSync, JustOKSync, and BarelyAdequateSync as not sufficiently appealing, and BetterSync, BestSync, GreatSync, and SuperSync as too pretentious, before settling, with commendable modesty, on GoodSync. In addition to Vice Versa, I can also recommend a program called GoodSync.
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