How to keep two HD's in sync?

How to keep two HD's in sync? They both contain my Sample Libraries, one is in my desktop the other in my laptop…essentially they contain the same items, but, the thing is: when I'm working on one I begin to delete, modify and add to the pool, and so the two become out of sync.
It's hard to know what exactly I've changed where. (So, what I usually do is take out things that I edit and re-save them separately, just in case, but this creates vast quantities of unnecessary duplicates).
So, what I'd like, would be if I could just keep both of the in sync somehow?
Here's what I'm thinking:
What if I was to use Carbon Copy Cloner, and just clone one onto the other, back and forth regularly? (Using incremental backup BTW) Would that be a good idea? I'd be worried that things might get corrupted by being overwritten/modified so regularly? Or would that be OK? I mean what if I had changed a small portion of a sample on one HD and then CCC'd onto the other, is it going to detect such a change? And will it always safely copy it across?
Thank you so much for any help.

emirium wrote:
It's hard to know what exactly I've changed where.
Here's what I'm thinking:
What if I was to use Carbon Copy Cloner, and just clone one onto the other, back and forth regularly? (Using incremental backup BTW)
If you are very strict about changing just one drive at a time, you can use CCC or ChronoSync and I think it will be fine.
BUT...if you are talking about making changes to both drives and trying to reconcile them, then you need ChronoSync or something similar. Because they allow you to preview exactly which files will be changed, in which direction, before you commit. I use a different utility (FoldersSynchronizer) for this purpose; it looks like ChronoSync achieves this through their Analyze window. At time I have stopped potential unintentional data loss by always previewing the changes.

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