Experience taught me that my hardware will tend to fail me when I need them them most. Eg, when I was about to quit my previous company, my workstation harddisk decided to give way! Good thing i had the habit of manually copying files into my network folders. Still it was a painful experience to reinstate winXP back into another disk.
One way to save the pain is to backup entire disk with freeware like DriveImage XML but it is quite time consuming. As I often develop and test programs, I’d want to synchronize some folders into the network drive.
Recently, i found easySync @ http://www.mybytes.de/. It is a nifty little free tool that helps me synchronize folders. It does so by helping u configure shortcuts that runs the program that does the work.
Compared to the other tools I have used before which sits at the background taking up CPU resources. This approach is better since I can start it when I am sure so as to prevent unintended syncs.
So far, I am pleased with easySync. I always check “Don’t delete anything” checkbox found at the shortcut creation wizard to play it safe!
*disclaimer: Don’t sue me when your files/folders get screwed ok?!*
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