If you are working with your files and you make a mistake, you don't want that mistake to be automatically reflected in your backups, but at the same time you do want to preserve the latest work you have done. Since the root of the destination is protected from removing any items, anything else you are storing on that external will not be affected by any Syncs to that destination disk. This is to allow you to have, for example, a bootable external disk which you also use for storage of other miscellaneous items. It also moves any files that are present on the destination and not in the source to the trash, besides protecting the first (root) directory of the destination. The beauty of this Synchronization in this case is that by using it the result is indistinguishable from an originally-made clone, it's as good as a brand new clone, but it only copies the files are different between the source and destination. If you already have a partial backup (for example, an out-of-date previously made clone, or even just a Finder copy between two folders) you can use Synchronization to create a clone faster than creating it from scratch. It will be happy backing up petabytes of data, or complex folder hierarchies with arcane filesystem metadata, permissions, and ACL's set, and reproduce an exact, indistinguishable, duplicate. If you want to make reliable and exact duplicates of anything you can throw at it, this is the way to do it. That is fine, it is not designed for that. It will even struggle with large folders with lots of files in it, and the copies are not resumable if you have to restart them. Did you ever try to copy your System folder for example? That won't work. Make an exact duplicate of a folder or disk, fast.Īlthough we typically just use drag & drop for simple folder copies in the Finder, when we want to make a copy of something that is more complex, that simply won't do.
If want solid functionality over bells and whistles, this was designed for you.
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Mac Backup Guru provides bootable backup, normal backup, and sync following this philosophy which you will see in its design pattern. And the other most important attribute is that it's simple to use. The philosophy behind Mac Backup Guru is that of the utmost importance is that the backup or sync is reliable. All of them can handle anything from small amounts of files & data to massive amounts. Mac Backup Guru has 3 main functions: Direct Cloning, Synchronization, and Incremental Snapshots. Make Bootable Backups, Scheduled Syncs, or Snapshots.
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