Advice Needed: Backing up external hard drive to other hard drive

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Hi all
So i have always backed up my Mac Book using time machine to an external hard drive and i am happy with that. However due to having only 250 GB SSD I store all my Lightroom catalogs and Raw files on an external hard drive. I want to back up my external hard drive to another one. What is the easiest way of doing this? I know i can just copy everything across with the two HDs linked to my computer, but what then happens for incremental changes after the initial set up?
Please let me know if you have good ideas on this. I know its something people would have tackled before, i am just slow in backing up my extra HD.

Cheers in advance
 
Carbon Copy Cloner (https://bombich.com/) offers this functionality I believe, case of choosing "Source" and "Destination" drives and whenever they''re both connected it will clone the drive.
30 day trial available to try it out, in fact I think I'm gonna try it out now for this exact reason too :)
 
As above I use carbon copy cloner but as well but will watch the thread for alternatives.
 
cheers all - i think i am going to try syncbuddy and hopefully that will do what i need. Looks simple enough :)
 
Bardo said:
I would highly recommend this lovely little app - it's what I use to keep constant backups of my NAS drives :)

http://syncbuddyapp.com
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Interesting, I see it's only 4 weeks old and there's not much on the internet about it. Do you have any critique on it in the time you've used it? Have you used Carbon copy Cloner, can you compare?
Looks like could be a decent alternative, good price. Cheers for the link.
 
Chr!s said:
Interesting, I see it's only 4 weeks old and there's not much on the internet about it. Do you have any critique on it in the time you've used it? Have you used Carbon copy Cloner, can you compare?
Looks like could be a decent alternative, good price. Cheers for the link.
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Haven't used Carbon Copy Cloner but I did use the software that SyncBuddy is based on - FolderWatch (SyncBuddy is basically version 2 - renaming it allows them to sell it to you again, cheeky b*ggers!). I like it a lot - it does exactly what it says on the tin seamlessly. The difference between Folder Watch and SyncBuddy is that SyncBuddy is one way sync only - personally that was never a problem for me as I only wanted files to be transferred in one direction (ie. from NAS to backup drive).
 
Thanks for the info, Jason. FolderWatch rings a bell and that would explain the lack of info :D
Am pretty pleased with CCC's extensive features and it works well but I'll check out SyncBuddy though, the one-feature-done-well is definately a plus in many cases.
A ittle unrealted but I use Syncthing for propogation of backups, clever little open-source freebie and no need to plug in drives etc.
 
I've used Super Duper for many years and it's seen me through the odd occasion of lost folders and switching to several new machines. There is a free version that you have to run yourself each time you need it, or the paid version, which costs $27.95, that lets you set up timed bootable back ups. I can't recall if the free version makes the back ups bootable but you can try the free version and see what you think.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
 
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I am using Intego Backup Manager Pro, paid for software from Lacie, it will work with other makes of hard drives.
It will either give me Backup or Synchronization
 
I use Goodsync. Tried Allwaysync and FreefileSync and they were great, but Goodsync has an undetectable (to me) performance hit when it's running and it will watch folders and back them up when they change. My strategy:
When anything in My Pictures on my PC hard disk gets changed or added, Goodysnc backs it up to my NAS (bay 1).
All other docs and settings are backed up daily to the NAS (bay 1).
Weekly, everything in bay 1 is backed up to bay 4.
 
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