[softwarelist] Re: SyncDiscs again

  • From: Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:17:45 +0000 (GMT)

In article <a6e6678e4e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <9gvz+jEw5BcFFw6L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> David Pilling
>           <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It seems like all you have to do is issue commands to Filer
> > Action if you want multitasking, however I wonder why I didn't do
> > that... it would for example be better to wait for one copy
> > operation to terminate before starting the next. I wonder if
> > you'd end up just coding your own multitasking copy.

> Which is precisely what DirSync by Jan-Jaap van der Geer does, so 
> anyone looking for that kind of functionality might want to have a 
> look at DirSync (I hope it is OK to mention this here - after all, 
> both are free programs).

I did look at DirSync a while back, but I never really got into. It
seemed to require too much user intervention to use in the way I
would prefer to sync a backup disc to the master. I will have another
look - perhaps I was using it incorrectly.

-- 
Chris Johnson


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