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Backup/Cloning Software (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/macos
 

I have two identical WD Passports 1TB external disks - one orange one yellow (crucial information :D). On one of them, I store all my data - design files, family pictures etc. Second one, I used to use as a backup. Before formatting my macos I had an app that worked like that: I would plug both of the to my macbook, after clicking a button, it would compare orange and yellow, and whatever was on orange but was missing on yellow, it would copy that file to yellow. I could set it up, that if something was missing from orange, but was on yellow, it would also delete it from yellow (or if I wanted, it would leave it there). Now, for the love of me I couldn't remeber what it was called. It was very basic looking...

Any idea what it was, or maybe a suggestion for a similar app? It was deifnitely 100% free.

EDIT: I remember that backup option were presented like this A>>B, A=B etc.

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[–] MNLFNUT8YG 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OMG this is the one! Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Think I found it - it's called Free File Sync.

It looks different from what I remember but it might be just the case of an updated UI - I prefered the old, symplistic one but it works nevertheless