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Writing to two folders simultaneously. Possible? Tired of running synch progs

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nudone:
good question, urlwolf, and good reply, 40hz.

i'm now using 'mirrorfolder'. i was using 'genie-soft backup manger pro' but 'mirrorfolder' is a lot more useful.

it's just a pity it doesn't have built in ftp support (not that i can see anyway).

cmpm:
this should do it
if you want to spend money

http://www.theutilityfactory.com/summaries/distribute-files-and-folders.htm

buy i can't help but think that it can be done without this utility
but i don't know

for anything under 2gb for free-syncplicity or dropbox
$10 a month gives 40gb for syncplicity and 50gb for dropbox
but that is not what i would want-a monthly payment

Collaber is free as city_zen has said
that looks interesting

depends on the type of files for other suggestions

edit-
here's a less expensive idea for the task

http://www.download3k.com/System-Utilities/File-Disk-Management/Download-Automatically-Copy-Files-to-Multiple-Folder-Locations-Software.html

cmpm:
a simple sync program
open source
batch capable

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

f0dder:
I believe MirrorFolder was first mentioned in this thread, there's some more talk of it in this thread, and even more in this thread. It's probably the program that will suit you the best, since it does real-time mirroring with the help of a filesystem filter driver.

What does this mean?

1) No sync step
2) only changed parts of files will be updated (1 byte change doesn't necessitate copying an entire multi-gig file)

justice:
If you don't want to spend money, alternatively it's easy to just run robocopy on startup with the /MOT:m option where m is how often you want to sync again, in minutes.
             Repeated Copy Options
            /MON:n : MONitor source; run again when more than n changes seen.
            /MOT:m : MOnitor source; run again in m minutes Time, if changed.

--- End quote ---
http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html

so robocopy c: d: /MOT:5 would sync every 5 minutes any changes from c to d. If you setup a scheduled task to run it on logon or as a service you would never see it.

Not as clever as MirrorFolder though, by description I'd go for that, you might get better performance out of MF.

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