Syncing two external hard drives together?

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Syncing two external hard drives together?

Hi everybody
I have two external hard drives, identical makes and storage capacity. i would like it so that i can sync the contents of both of them together.

i'm already using one, divided into an NTFS and a HFS+ partition with my Mac. i've just bought a second and I'd like to have an identical copy of the first [for security purposes]

- what would the easiest way to do this be? they both interface by USB and I have the port space on my MBP to attach both at once.

thank you very much indeed! 🙂

MacbookPro

Posted on Mar 22, 2010 4:16 PM

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DaddyPaycheck

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Mar 23, 2010 3:20 AM in response to Shenzi

Try SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.

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dwb

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Mar 23, 2010 6:32 AM in response to Shenzi

Just to expand on what DaddyPaycheck said - use one of the drives day to day (call it the work drive) while the other sits back and relaxes (call it the clone). On a schedule set by you, run a cloning program such as CCC or SuperDuper! to copy the contents of your work drive to the clone drive. I use SuperDuper! for this process and use the scheduling feature to run it weekly.

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