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From: Jane on 25 Jun 2010 16:50 I recently bought a Western Digital My Passport external drive to use as a backup for my work. It comes with WD SmartWare Software, which automatically backs up files whilst they are being worked on. I think I have it set so that it stores the last 5 versions of a file and works in the background in real-time. Great! I thought, until about 3 months after using this as my exclusive backup when I discovered (thankfully through testing it, rather than having a critical failure) that it doesn't recognise or backup .mat .m .fig or anything else associated with Matlab (Or latex files either for that matter). So, my question is, does anyone know of any free, or cheap, software which will do a similar job and does recognise both Matlab and Latex files? I'm using Windows 7 as my OS. Many thanks
From: Steven Lord on 27 Jun 2010 22:43 "Jane " <j.l.terry(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:i034qg$93e$1(a)fred.mathworks.com... >I recently bought a Western Digital My Passport external drive to use as a >backup for my work. It comes with WD SmartWare Software, which >automatically backs up files whilst they are being worked on. I think I >have it set so that it stores the last 5 versions of a file and works in >the background in real-time. > > Great! I thought, until about 3 months after using this as my exclusive > backup when I discovered (thankfully through testing it, rather than > having a critical failure) that it doesn't recognise or backup .mat .m > .fig or anything else associated with Matlab (Or latex files either for > that matter). I would be surprised if the software didn't give you the option of choosing what types of files (by extension) to be backed up. Have you contacted the authors of that software and/or looked for a forum or newsgroup about that software where you can ask how to configure it? -- Steve Lord slord(a)mathworks.com comp.soft-sys.matlab (CSSM) FAQ: http://matlabwiki.mathworks.com/MATLAB_FAQ To contact Technical Support use the Contact Us link on http://www.mathworks.com
From: ImageAnalyst on 27 Jun 2010 23:14 Sounds strange, but anyway... I use "Second copy" http://www.secondcopy.com/download.html the free version is manual, and the paid version will allow you to automatically sync up drives or folders at the frequency you want. You can have several different "profiles" if you want that back up just certain specific things.
From: Jane on 28 Jun 2010 14:25 Sorry for the delay is responding, I was expecting an email if there was a response. I rang the company after this discovery and asked them why these files weren't being backed up and the response I got that these file types weren't supported and if I looked at some obscure link I could see which file types were. They were actually quite rude and I would recommend not buying from them. I haven't heard of software you recommend, I'll have a look. Many thanks.
From: Mark Shore on 28 Jun 2010 17:38
ImageAnalyst <imageanalyst(a)mailinator.com> wrote in message <900d0926-506c-4672-95fb-4f9d334384c5(a)y11g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>... > Sounds strange, but anyway... > I use "Second copy" > http://www.secondcopy.com/download.html > the free version is manual, and the paid version will allow you to > automatically sync up drives or folders at the frequency you want. > You can have several different "profiles" if you want that back up > just certain specific things. I won't use software that stores backups in proprietary formats or is selective about what type of files it will copy. I use Beyond Compare myself, but there are many alternatives. |