Is Macrium File/Folder Backup 2-way sync or 1-way 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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Freefilesync is a well respected tool.
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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.
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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Another is Live File Backup which I use.
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I endorse the use of FreeFileSync as recommended by @cereberus . Been using it for years.
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FreeFileSync without a doubt 
If you want to get a better understanding of how it works and its practicality, apart from the forum itself, the video tutorials on the front page are short, to the point and well made. Best of all it’s free.
If you want to get a better understanding of how it works and its practicality, apart from the forum itself, the video tutorials on the front page are short, to the point and well made. Best of all it’s free.
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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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