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[Dutch Peter]

I have an external hard disk that i use to make backups of my pc harddisk.
Up till now i have used 3th pary software to synchronize the directories. It enables me to only copy those files that are new are have been changed.

I was wondering if it is possible to use MC11 for this for me.

I have been playing around with the options after defined the harddrive as a handheld, but it does not work nicely.

Anybody doing this already?
What about the speed of 'gathering info' on the external drive? Analyzing my 6000 songs takes 5-6 minutes??

Peter

[modelmaker]

As far as I know, MC cannot backup your files, only the library.

You can, of course manually copy & move files from within MC, but I don't think that's what you want.

[Dutch Peter]

You can, of course manually copy & move files from within MC, but I don't think that's what you want.

No, thats correct.

I was more thinking about using the handheld/synchronize functionality to do this?? This because it is possible to define the external disk as an handheld.

Peter

[Pink Waters]

you can backup all your multimedia by MC including music, video, photos...etc and that is possible by making MC recognize the backup destination as a fixed drive (Handheld) from the handheld option menu.. and then you sync the files

[modelmaker]

I stand corrected.

[Dutch Peter]

you can backup all your multimedia by MC including music, video, photos...etc and that is possible by making MC recognize the backup destination as a fixed drive (Handheld) from the handheld option menu.. and then you sync the files

I have tried that, but is was very slow. Gathering information of the external drive each time takes minutes. And another thing is that even I unselect all playlists, it will analyze those. This also takes a lot of time.
I also had some warnings on duplicate files.

Pink Waters: did you do this actually, or do think it should work that way?

Peter

[Jaguu]

I also tried to use MC11 to backup my media files to a backup disk using the Handheld synchronisation. My experience was with 13'000 image files (*.jpg):

1) Gathering media data is simply too slow, in my case 10-15 minutes!
2) It creates plenty of duplicates as images very often have identical name tags and differ only in file name. But file name is not recognized. SteveG wrote that originally it was not intended for synchronizing all type of media files and he promised that he will give it a deeper look at a more general attempt. Probably not in MC11!

3) I don't think it is really polished to do that kind of job, but hopefully they will make it in the next release.

4) I use an external tool for synchronizing my media data to an external disk and it only takes a few minutes to synchronize.

5) It would really be useful to be able to synchronize subsets of the media library to my notebook with just one click!

 

[Dutch Peter]

1) Gathering media data is simply too slow, in my case 10-15 minutes!

Yes it is very slow, but for a backup maybe acceptable.
I wonder how that works with a real hand held. One would like a fairly quick sync i guess.

2) It creates plenty of duplicates as images very often have identical name tags and differ only in file name.

This triggers the following question: what tags are used in the sync?
I changed the Genre and ended up with duplicates?
Does it only look at Name and Artist?
I hope not!! 

Additional question: now it seems to make 1 directory where all the files are copied in. Is it possible to create the same structure as on de primairy disk?

Peter

Peter

[Jaguu]

I changed the Genre and ended up with duplicates?
Does it only look at Name and Artist?
I hope not!! 

Search Interact for Jaguu and SteveG and you will find an exact answer by SteveG

Additional question: now it seems to make 1 directory where all the files are copied in. Is it possible to create the same structure as on de primairy disk?

There are options to define the directory structure on the handheld. I think you have to right-click under "Devices" and the name of the Handheld

[Dutch Peter]

Search Interact for Jaguu and SteveG and you will find an exact answer by SteveG

Sorry. The only result is this thread with all options open and 500 days.
Can you help me a little more?

There are options to define the directory structure on the handheld. I think you have to right-click under "Devices" and the name of the Handheld

No options like that ....  Can you check?
Is it maybe because I am trying on a PDA and not on an external hard drive?

Peter

[Jaguu]

Read this thread:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=27017.msg187270#msg187270

[GHammer]

No options like that ....  Can you check?
Is it maybe because I am trying on a PDA and not on an external hard drive?

Peter

I have the option under Drives & Devices, I right click the device I am going to sync to and I see Rearrange Upload Folders. That has a menu of various ways to store the files, including Artist/Album

[Dutch Peter]

I have the option under Drives & Devices, I right click the device I am going to sync to and I see Rearrange Upload Folders. That has a menu of various ways to store the files, including Artist/Album

Yes! When external drive is connected these options are available.
But, how do I activate this action? Syncing does not re-arrange them?

Jaguu:
I will read the provided thread later in the evening. Thanks in advance.

[bbrip]

Another backup question:

I have my main drive as RAID0 array and total 800gb. When backing up, I need to do this to several (at least two) smaller disks).

Any way (external or internal) to automize finding the right device, ie I backup albums starting A-P to one disc and Q-Z to the next one.

Thanks for any advise

B

[Dutch Peter]

But, how do I activate this action? Syncing does not re-arrange them?

It works for newly synced files. It does not re-arrange the files already on the external disk.

Peter

[Dutch Peter]

Read this thread:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=27017.msg187270#msg187270

Here's my response.
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=27017.msg191400#msg191400
To my opinion we find a bug??!!

[GHammer]

Personally, if you have a standalone backup utility, I'd use that.