Looking for application to sync the files between mac and pc

I have a mac and a pc, I would like to backup their file onto an external harddisk.
Will any application work for both PC and MAC?
or I will need two different application installed on my 2 computer?

Mac apps are Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, Silverkeeper, etc. On the PC side is ghost. However, note that the formatting xchemes for each type are different and you just might find that you'll need two ext HDs.

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Hi Eric and welcome to Discussions and the Apple world.
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hairygoose wrote:
Previously, I could sync my phone with itunes and my calendars would update across both devices. couple of months ago I installed mavericks and noticed that there no longer was the option to sync calendars with a wired connection between devices so I rolled back to 10.8.5 and left mavericks well alone
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Message was edited by: Kasper Soerensen

Hi Eric and welcome to Discussions and the Apple world.
Mac OSX can read and write from Windows partitions (like the BootCamp Windows partition you are about to create) when using FAT32 as file system for Windows.
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