Have an external drive copy exactly a folder on my Time Capsule
Hello all.
I have a Time Capsul on which I keep large folders of video content. The content on this folder changes weekly -- files added, files deleted. I keep another external hard drive as an emergency backup for this video folder, and I want to know if there is a way to have this external drive mirror what is in the Time Capsule's folder, without my usual: Delete eerything out of the external folder, copy+paste all the files for the TC. This takes a very long time.
Understand it is not as simple as just adding the newere files becuse files get deleted out fo the folder also and I want to folders to be mirror images of each other.
If anyone knows a way to set this up to happen, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I want to know if there is a way to have this external drive mirror what is in the Time Capsule's folder
Chronosync or Carbon Copy Cloner can be setup to automatically back up the file(s) from the Time Capsule to your other external drive automatically on a daily basis.
Once you have made the initial backup, then the application that you use will only back up the changes that have been made since the last backup, so these "incremental" backups should occur quickly each day.
ChronoSync | Schedule File and Folder Synchronizations and ...
Carbon Copy Cloner
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