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Working on project and worrying about what backup software to use? As a developer I often worry about my backup source other than SVN, how accurate is my daily backup, is it done hourly, daily etc?

For me, I would prefer a folder sync software to a remote destination. Much like the rsync command of the linux/unix platform. Basically a sync does is that it compares the target and destination folders – analysing the files modified and the copy over if needed be.

Sync is much a lighter process when compared to a routine full backup plus compression. Normally, if you are developer like me – project source codes don’t take much of a space so, syncing folders a indeed useful. A good software to get for this matter will be SyncBack Freeware Edition.

This freeware works like charm and dandy in all windows platform managing folder sync routine.

What we need next is also to set up a NAS (network accessed storage) is the best and affordable solution for a small IT setup or some can manage it at home with a simple network setup.

We just need to sync folders with the NAS with a followings settings

1. Source and destination folder
2. Start time per daily basis – I set it to 7.00 am every morning
3. Run Background Profile every 1 minute – every minute it checks two folders and perform sync only when there’s changes.

That’s it a free and simple settings to backup and your backup copies can be as accurate as 1 minute interval. Good Stuff

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Presenting "Virtual Clone Drive". Yet another post on handy Vista, XP friendly software which allows you to mount an ISO file to a virtual drive excluding malware, rootkit stuff and adwares. Yup, just plain simple freeware that does that.

This tool will be useful for those that like to create images of the DVD/CD and stored them as ISO files (backup purposes). These ISO files are made by software like imgburn / nero burning rom and etc. Originally, ISO files are made to be used as source disk reference for DVD/CD burning software.

With Virtual Clone Drive installed all your ISO files will be somewhat executable, simply double click on em, and the software will then mount a virtual drive that emulate exactly like the original DVD. Quite useful for those whom prefer simple drive mounting to checkout contents in ISO files.

Virtual Clone drive is available free for download here.

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