Is Macrium File/Folder Backup 2-way sync or 1-way sync?


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So if I choose to use it for a given folder, will its content be uploaded to the destination and never changed if the destination's content is changed? Or is it mirror sync?
 

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Macrium's file backup is an imaging process, not a file sync/replication process. It's only meant as a File level backup and it's done using an imaging process. Wrong tool for what you may be thinking about.
 

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Froggie said:
Macrium's file backup is an imaging process, not a file sync/replication process. It's only meant as a File level backup and it's done using an imaging process. Wrong tool for what you may be thinking about.
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Can you suggest tools then
 

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As others stated, Macrium is a point in time copy of the files.

You can use many other tools to make sync's of data. I personally use robocopy (comes with Windows), to make a mirrored copy (using the /MIR switch). Therefore, whatever changes on the source is replicated to the destination so they match. The sources if always the source of truth, it's not a sync in 2 directions.
 

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pparks1 said:
As others stated, Macrium is a point in time copy of the files.

You can use many other tools to make sync's of data. I personally use robocopy (comes with Windows), to make a mirrored copy (using the /MIR switch). Therefore, whatever changes on the source is replicated to the destination so they match. The sources if always the source of truth, it's not a sync in 2 directions.
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What's the code for robocopy to synchronize Source to Directory in a scheduled manner, but changes to the directory won't affect the content of the source at all?

Btw I suppose in the powershell script there has to be a "New-ScheduledTask" cmdlet so it'll be registered as a scheduled task
 

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