Keeping files on two rigs up to date?

[sssssshhhhhh]

I'm just wondering if anyone has any elegant ways of keeping files on two rigs (say a main rig and an assistants rig) up to date.

The way we do it at the moment is simply using the external backup drive as a semi working drive for the assistant rig during the day, but it's not the best and won't have the most up to date files by the end of the day.

Is there a more elegant way of keeping folders in sync, with one rig being a master and having a partition on the second rig as a clone or slave over ethernet maybe?

[JFreak]

Carbon Copy Cloner

[sssssshhhhhh]

Yeah, carbon copy cloner is great. It's how we back up at the end of the day. But I'm wondering if theres a way to keep a copy of an up to date session folder on another rig, that can be updated unobtrusively and relatively regularly over ethernet or wifi, not just at the end of the day on to a physical external hard drive.

Or, could you be more specific?

[DetroitT]

We use folderssynchronizer4
$40 or less in bundles. 64bit
(As long as you can network mount (See the external drive)

Session>SessionBU drive

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by sssssshhhhhh

I'm wondering if theres a way to keep a copy of an up to date session folder on another rig, that can be updated unobtrusively and relatively regularly over ethernet or wifi, not just at the end of the day on to a physical external hard drive.

You need to set up a NAS and use Protools HD which has the caching feature enabled (therefore you don't need to have the files on a fast local drive). Ever since PT10 I have had zero trouble with storage, it just keeps going. Can even record/playback full session off an USB drive

[Andrew. D]

I have used Chronosync for this for a while now.
Check it out at econtechnologies.com

[Bill Denton]

But keep in mind the old IT adage...if you have a given piece of data in two places, one of them is wrong.

You want to be extremely careful when you do any sync'ing...