Hi, 

Has anyone tried installing synctoy on Win server 2003, has it worked fine?
I don't want to set up robocopy, too much work.
Is there an easy programm like synctoy for Win server 2003?  Please help

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re: Synctoy Monday, October 29, 2007 at 11:53 am Posted by quick69gto (850 messages posted) Microsoft says only for Vista and XP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Synctoy Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:14 pm Posted by Mike (271 messages posted) yes, i use it for backup to usb hard drives. their data is soo large it is the only way to copy data daily to second drives. i have it auto run, files are updated daily or nightly. On Monday, October 29, 2007 at 10:53 am, quick69gto wrote: >Microsoft says only for Vista and XP. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Synctoy Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 3:26 pm Posted by Markiv Mariaj (1 messages posted) Synctoy is not the only option. In fact, it is not a stable solution, even though it can be run through the command line. I hate the fact that it creates its own synctoy.log in every folder root that I choose to synchronize, though it is great for end users. If you need more power, try installing CYGWIN and using rsync. rsync with its most simple options "rsync -av --delete /source_folder/ /destination_folder" (note that the destination folder does not have a trailing slash) is superfast and extremely reliable. That should serve your purpose better, especially for windows server 2003. Will not work with mapped drives though. You may have to use Synctoy for that. Also note that the --delete option is for mirroring. If you want to synchronize, run rsync one way first without the --delete option and then run it the other way. For example: rsync -av /source_folder/ /destination folder rsync -av /destination_folder/ /source_folder On Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:14 pm, Mike wrote: >yes, i use it for backup to usb hard drives. their data is soo large it is the only >way to copy data daily to second drives. i have it auto run, files are updated daily >or nightly. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Synctoy Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 7:15 pm Posted by Mike (271 messages posted) Never said synctoy was the only option, but for scanning nearly 350gb of data daily and finding the only changed files and then backing them up to a USB hard drive works wonderfully. However, I use 1.4, not 2.0. I don't like 2.0. This works for me and my office and has yet to fail us with issues. Been running it for over 2 years now. Thanks for your help. On Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 3:26 pm, Markiv Mariaj wrote: >Synctoy is not the only option. In fact, it is not a stable solution, even though >it can be run through the command line. I hate the fact that it creates its own synctoy.log >in every folder root that I choose to synchronize, though it is great for end users. >If you need more power, try installing CYGWIN and using rsync. rsync with its most >simple options "rsync -av --delete /source_folder/ /destination_folder" (note that >the destination folder does not have a trailing slash) is superfast and extremely >reliable. That should serve your purpose better, especially for windows server 2003. >Will not work with mapped drives though. You may have to use Synctoy for that. > >Also note that the --delete option is for mirroring. If you want to synchronize, >run rsync one way first without the --delete option and then run it the other way. >For example: >rsync -av /source_folder/ /destination folder >rsync -av /destination_folder/ /source_folder > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Server 2003 Discussion Forum