What do you do to keep the deletes in sync on the two computers?

On 2/17/2015 6:34 PM, Jesse Lackey wrote:
> My 2c on this topic...
>
> After a near-miss 8 years ago that would have lost all development data
> I got a regular backup system in place, and another near-miss 5 years
> ago when my shop got burgled I added online backups as well.
>
> I have a main monster work computer and a low-end laptop, and I want to
> have backups and sync between them.  Windows 7 on both.
>
> I have 5 directories I keep backed up:
> Development
> Email
> Media (pics)
> Random Documents
> Zips of software/drivers I commonly use (to make setting up a new laptop
> faster, for example)
>
> Anything not in those directories I know is not going to be backed up
> often.  Total size: 30K files taking 47gb.  "Treesize" is a good utility
> for looking thru directory structures for unneeded stuff.
>
> I use "CopyTo synchronizer" to maintain sync between the lappy and the
> desktop.  I tell it which way to write, and off it goes.  Handy.  So I
> tell it to write from desktop to the lappy, go work out of the house
> when possible or @ client, and sync back at night.
>
> So my laptop and desktop are typically in sync within a few days.  So
> all data is now on 2 harddrives.

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