Yo gerbils. My situation is this. I've a router with a USB drive plugged in acting as a cheap NAS solution. I also have 3 PCs currently on the network. I was wondering if you folks could suggest reliable file backup/sync solutions so that I can create a backup to the NAS?
Top 3 use cases are such:
1. I would like to copy important documents, photos, records, etc from our PCs to designated directories on the NAS. If local files are modified, or new ones added, I'd like for them to be copied over too (at the next regular backup, etc).
2. Along those lines, I'm currently going through and ripping our CD collection to mp3 and lossless formats. I'd like to rip a bunch of CDs every few days, check that they came out ok, include album art and drop them in local "Done" directory. Again, every week, I'd like it if new files could be copied over to an online mirror.
3. Need to keep track of savegames. Man were the old days annoying, manually backing up saved-games to a CD, then not knowing which CD or version I wanted. . I'd like to tell the software which directories to watch, and have them copied to a savegames directory on the NAS.
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I realize I'm using copy, backup, and sync all over the place. Basically, what I'd most need is good software capable of automatically performing a 1-way sync. 2-way sync capability is fine, as long as I can set the parameters (in no scenario do I automatically want to over-write from the NAS back to local). Also, I'd like to be able to browse the files on the NAS, and copy them over individually, at my choosing. The sort of software that does a whole-system-backup and writes it as a compressed image to storage isn't really what I'm gunning for.
That being said, any suggestions?