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Backup/Syncing performance -- a few software compared

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tomos:
FWIW I've found the following Time Machine related apps in addition to what you've mentioned (ie. Oops! and AutoVer).

CascadePoint (free)
http://www.jpsoft.com/cascadepointdes.htm

TimeTraveler ($19.95)
http://www.bearsontheloose.com/

Wondershare Time Shuttle ($49.95) claims system restore and file recovery.
http://www.wondershare.com/pro/time-shuttle.html
-sajman99 (October 16, 2010, 02:03 PM)
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sound interesting

for the record, I'll add FileHamster there, which I'm happy with. I use paid 'Advanced' version ($49)
http://www.filehamster.com/
I like the ability to add (& edit) comments and the ability to sort  the backups (also on comments) & also filter them (dates / most recent version of each file). Tagging of some sort would be nice - I use specific comments for different phases of a job which I guess is comparable. That way I can also check current file 'status'.
I do wish they'd fix up the GUI for some stuff though, maybe next version... http://support.mogware.net/index.php?topic=1102.0

Armando:
Well, I mostly compared syncing utilities here, not "versioning" ones. I think Versioning should be kept separate as far as "benchmarking" is concerned. (I mentioned versioning as this is important to me, in general. I didn't try FileHamster (yet) as some find it consumes excessive RAM. AutoVer is light and does what I need... It surely has less features, but... It's free and seems to work well after a few days of usage.)

apankrat:
I ran some tests and I managed to get Bvckup's bulk copying performance on par with that of FastCopy, e.g. copying 500 meg file within the same SSD drive now runs in 10 seconds instead of 15 as before. Also improved the speed of copying empty files (oddly enough) by a factor of five. There is some really odd things that helps with improving OS cache behavior... like in one case setting SEQUENTIAL_SCAN flag when reading a source file improved the write speed of the destination file. Stay tuned for the next version, it's going to be a beauty :)

Armando:
This sounds really promising apankrat. Thanks for the info !  :)

MrCrispy:
Very useful report Armando, thanks. If you get the time please try Oops! Backup if you can. Also I'm assuming you cleared out the Windows file cache between tests?

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