Note that if you’re doing this on servers and would like to stop a service (such as postgres) before a sync and start it after, you can use the scripts section of this screen. For the purposes of this sync, which brings over server shares, I’m going to leave Conflict resolution set to Ask User and use the custom option under the Special File/Folder Handling section to enable the “Verify copied data” option and “Preserve Comments” option. Once you’ve set the type of sync, you can also use the Options menu to define some pretty granular settings for your sync. The option I’m selecting is “Synchronize Bidirectional” as this is an article about syncing data. The other options are pretty well defined in the manual, but it’s worth mentioning that the Bootable Mirror options are especially useful. Click into the Operation field to bring up a list of the options that can be performed between your left and right targets. The default action that will be performed is to backup from the left to the right targets (the term target referring to the folder, not that it’s a source or target in the backup operation). Repeat that process in the Right Target section of the screen. Because a lot of the data I use needs root access, I’m going to select “Local Volumes (Admin access)” in the “Connect to” field and then use the Choose button to select my actual source. When I used to do a lot of manual migrations, I would always always always line up my source on the left and my target on the right (or invariably you risk data loss by copying in the wrong direction), so the workflow in ChronoSync has always made sense to me. To do so, click on the option to “Create a new synchronizer document”.Īt the Setup screen, you have a right and left column. Once registered, you’ll see a nice screen giving you a few options. We’re going to create a single plan (synchronizer document) to backup a single source to a single target. Once the installer is finished, open the app and register the product. Then walk through the installer, basically following the defaults (unless you’d like to install to a volume other than your boot volume). Once you’ve downloaded, ChronoSync, run the installer from the disk image that was downloaded. Next, we’re going to walk through the most basic of setups (and you can get all kinds of complicated from there if you’d like!). To get started with ChronoSync, go to their website at. It’s been a little while since I got the chance to really tinker around with ChronoSync so I thought I’d do a little article on what I got to find during my tinkerations. ChronoSync is one of those tools that’s been in the Mac community for a long time (rightfully so).
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