I was searching for Synchronization tools for my laptop backup strategy . I came across following two useful sync tools,
1. FolderShare
This tool is recommended by everyone for synchronization, this is useful if you want to sync your files through internet. For example, if you want to Sync your files between home PC and your Office PC and both machine are always on internet. Then this tool will be really useful. I haven’t tried out this tool. This tool is brought by Windows Live service now and it is free.
2. SyncToys
This tool is little known tool. It’s a part of Windows XP power toys and its free utility provided by Microsoft. This tool can be used to sync files between your pc and any another pc on network and also between your pc and your external harddisk.
My case is to sync between laptop and my external harddisk, so I went with SyncToys as of now. But major drawback with this tool is, you cannot schedule it. However with the help of Windows scheduler and Synctoys command line option, I am able to schedule it. Major advantage of this tool is, it’s quite fast in syncing files. I have files in GBs, but still it is doing it very fast.
If you don’t have any backup strategy for your data in your PC, then it’s time for you to try out these tools now.