Kostas Papakotas wrote: > Greetings all (and especially Karl who is the list "expert" on this) > I would appreciate you suggestion for an app to synchronize an > external with my main drive where I keep my backups. Laurenz Bobke writes: : I'm using syncback and am quite satisfied with it. : So far it has been very reliable and much faster than copying files via : windows. : It's also freeware and allows for customised copying / synchronisation : profiles specifying exactly which files on one drive should overwrite which : files on the other drive. that's my preferred program too :) Nice to be able to specify exactly which files by filtype to include or exclude, whether to overwrite older/newer files or to make renumbered copies etc one thing I did for a business I worked for was to set different schedules for different days across a fortnight so at any point they could restore either a days backup or a single file! it also works quietly in the background with no fuss once it's set up. of all the software i've installed in business operations, this one proved the most popular :) karl