NTFS external HDD's on an iMac

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I just made the leap and have moved from PC to a new quad core iMac. I have two 1Tb HDD's that all my photos are stored on, one the master and the other a syc'd copy I kept updated with Synctoy on the PC.

I have got the Tuxera app to enable the iMac to write to the NTFS HDD OK.

What I need now is a Mac app to sync the two NTFS external HDD's which I already have populated with around 700Gb of images form the PC.

I thought Carbon Copy Clone was the answer but it only works with Mac formatted HDD's!

Do any of you experienced iMac guys know of an app that will do what I want?

Thanks in advance.
 
haggis said:
I just made the leap and have moved from PC to a new quad core iMac. I have two 1Tb HDD's that all my photos are stored on, one the master and the other a syc'd copy I kept updated with Synctoy on the PC.

I have got the Tuxera app to enable the iMac to write to the NTFS HDD OK.

What I need now is a Mac app to sync the two NTFS external HDD's which I already have populated with around 700Gb of images form the PC.

I thought Carbon Copy Clone was the answer but it only works with Mac formatted HDD's!

Do any of you experienced iMac guys know of an app that will do what I want?

Thanks in advance.
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Anybody?
 
Not directly but what about copying the files to the iMac HD and then re formatting the external to the mac format..?
 
RSMarco said:
Not directly but what about copying the files to the iMac HD and then re formatting the external to the mac format..?
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Thanks but I still want to be able to plug the USB drive into the PC at times.
 
Scotty Pro said:
FAT 32 no good in this case ?
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Yeah but I would still need to format them and to do one then move everything then do the other is bit of a pain!
 
Silver Keeper and Integeo from Lacie. Not free though. I use Integeo
 
haggis said:
Thanks Rob - will it definitely let me do the syncing of one external NTFS drive to the other on the iMac?
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it will let you copy from one NTFS drive to another

:)
 
Rob 80386 said:
it will let you copy from one NTFS drive to another

:)
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Thanks Rob - will give it a try tonight
 
Other way you can do it is make your externals HFS+ and use MacDrive on the PC.
 
None of these is actually letting me sync the two NTFS drives from the iMac?
 
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The other option would be to use the built in features - you should be able to use the rsync function in a terminal window,

Something like

Rsync -a /Volumes/maindrive/ /Volumes/backup/

Where maindrive is the name of your master and backup is the name of your backup.

You can then save this as a script and schedule it to run when you like in calendar.

Sorry can't be more specific I'm at the airport if I get time when I get home I'll post a more detailed reply.

Just found this link - http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

Don't forget that OSX is unix based and a lot of handy linux/unix features are lurking under the shiny UI
 
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yoby said:
The other option would be to use the built in features - you should be able to use the rsync function in a terminal window,
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Totally forgot about rsync :bonk:
 
Thanks guys. I'm loving the Mac already and once I get these few issues sorted out I'll really get motoring.
 
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