After a brief experimenting with trial version of TC I found "Syncronise Dirs" tool is probably the best available tool of sorts on Windows but the fact that it can be only ran manually is a bummer.
May I suggest releasing it as a separate utility able to run in background and run on a schedule?
The possible scenario of use is: I want backup my home directory to OneDrive or mounted NFS/CIFS share every X hours and obvious choice for this task rsync does not work very well on NTFS.
The idea is that there can be predefined "profiles" for synchronization tasks where one can specify source and destination and copying rules and how often they can be ran, i.e. hourly, daily, etc.
Thank you, regardless of whether you decide doing it or not.
Feature request - separate Syncronise Dirs tool with scheduling
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Re: Feature request - separate Syncronise Dirs tool with scheduling
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Re: Feature request - separate Syncronise Dirs tool with scheduling
For such automations I use robocopy. You can configure it very finely. The Tc is more suitable for special tasks that cannot be automated, where you have to take a look at it.
Re: Feature request - separate Syncronise Dirs tool with scheduling
Try also SyncToy. It's pretty old (2009), but still works even on Windows 11.
We are not so S.M.A.R.T. as we imagine...
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Re: Feature request - separate Syncronise Dirs tool with scheduling
You can automate the compare step, but not the copy step. Example:
totalcmd64.exe /S=S:=name_of_stored_settings
totalcmd64.exe /S=S:=name_of_stored_settings
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