Sweet, thanks.. Now all I need to do is somehow get SyncToy to sync up with my SkyDrive account..

Cobian Backup is one I have used on a number of XP machines. It can be scheduled to run at a particular time each week/day/month.

http://www.cobian.se/cobianbackup.htm

When I looked at SyncToy, admittedly a year or two ago, there was a serious deficiency when using bidirectional sync (contribute mode). It used �last accessed� rather than �last updated� to decide the direction of synchronisation. This means an older version of a file could overwrite the updated one in some cases. Clearly not a good feature!

Can someone clarify whether the current version is free of this problem?

Fred

I resorted to buying GoodSync Pro and never looked back. An unrealised bonus was it can even perfectly sync emails across different clients on different machines thereby eliminating the need for IMAP.
I think I paid about a tenner for it and that certainly was a tenner well spent.

The free version is limited to 100 files and 3 "jobs".

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Karen's replicator

I'd agree that KR is a pretty nifty tool, especially considering the price.
Our Ms Kenworthy offers a pretty good little selection of small, effective and above all, free tools for all sorts of little things.

I�ve been looking at Goodsync so cheekily I thought I'd ask a question of one who uses it .

One feature I need is the ability � possibly wrong terminology � is to have a number of jobs that each synchronises a number of different pairs of folders. For example:

Job1: analyses and synchronises folders aaa and bbb and ccc on drive C: with folders aaa and bbb and ccc on drive H:
Job2: analyses and synchronises folders zzz and yyy and xxx and www on drive D: with folders zzz and yyy and xxx and www on drive G:

At the moment I can�t see any way of doing this with Goodsync. I guess what I seek is the ability to add further folder pairs to a Job�s list.

Is this possible with Goodsync? If so how do I do it?

Not a Goodsync answer but...

Syncback, particularly if you get one of the paid-for versions, does all sorts (depending on what version you go for) including scheduling different folders to backup or synchronise. You define what you want it to do and where to back it up/sync to and what schedule you want for each "profile".

You can also set it up to run a backup when a particular drive is detected so you can do a backup simply by connecting the relevant external drive.

It's not the case that the Backup facility in Windows 7 will only restore to an image. You can find individual files to restore.

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Karen's replicator

It is with much regret to inform you in that Karen Kenworthy passed away. She wrote some excellent software and was very much respected in the forums that i serve in

http://www.tulsaworld.com/ourlives/article.aspx?subj...

R.I.P Karen

I used a few of her programs before I moved to Macs, she was very good.