I dont update too often as I dont cover many Disco Discos but all I do is open up the HD on my laptop--drag over new tracks which I have stored on the Laptop and then run the Cortex for about 30 minutes to bring everything up to date. Time taken depends on number of tracks but I guess a lot of us only have 4,999
Rather than update the Cortex datatbase I delete it on the HD and run it from scratch. Just a preference.
Surely all this doesnt take long and can be done whilst having a cup of tea or multi tasking elsewhere
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I use http://www.goodsync.com/ but as Martin says - BE CAREFUL!
Will shortly be treating myself to one of these with a stack of 1/2Tb drives in it on RAID 5 + Spare, along with an external 1.5Tb drive for backing it up. I've installed these for clients before, and the backup uses rSync which is fairly fast and kicks in when you plug in the external drive.
They are very impressive bits of kit, with a feature to access it remotely via FTP or a web interface which is really handy when out and about The wireless cameras are great, too...you can watch them from anywhere online and set them to record triggered by motion detect
Last edited by Marc J; 30-01-2009 at 05:31 PM.
Hi I use this:
http://www.superflexible.com/
It just works - I have 4 Disk drives and once you have done the initial mirror, keeping them in sync is a breeze. You can run the software in either attended mode or unattended mode and you can schedule also!
Oh and another thing - it's very fast - to initially mirror a 1TB disk took 40mins!Highlights:
Runs on Windows 98 thru Vista and Server 2003/2008
Copy or synchronize data between local drives and/or network drives
FTP, SSL, SSH, WebDAV, and Amazon S3 support
Includes ZIP compression and Encryption
Scheduler can run as GUI or as a Windows Service
Copy file permissions and file shares
Trigger a job as soon as a network resource becomes available
Copy locked files on Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008
Run profiles in parallel
Partial updating of large files (delta copying)
Hope this helps
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Everytime I update my main external HD, I update everything else too (the HD2500). This ensures that everything is mirror'd. I made the mistake ages ago of not doing it and making a folder up titled 'Transfer' so I could remember to update and guess what....I forgot! Low and behold, that night someone asked for a track that I knew I had but it wasn't there because I hadn't updated everything at the same time.