Is once daily enough?
I’ve been using the beta version of SyncToy 2.0 to synchronize my mini-mobile USB hard drive to the file server. It’s been a great safeguard. All of my working data is kept on the mobile unit rather than the laptop’s hard drive due to space constraints. This also allows me to simply take the mobile hard drive home alone to work on as opposed to my entire laptop. This is VERY handy considering that I’ve been commuting by bike a lot lately.
But I only synchronize my data from the mini-mobile hard drive to the server once a day. Today, I found that to be a mistake. Not a major mistake, but good enough of one to make me tweak my method. After working on a project most of Friday, I took the unit home to work on over the weekend only to forget to bring it back in with me today. No problem, I have a copy up on the server. Whoops… if I work with that data, everything I did on Friday and over the weekend is lost.
So… I’ve now tweaked my scheduled sync to run twice a day — once in the morning, and then again in the afternoon before I leave. The task scheduler within XP makes it a breeze to do so too.
Open the task from within Task Scheduler, go to the Schedule tab, at the bottom of the screen check the box “Show multiple schedules.” Then, click on the “New” button at the top and set your second schedule for the task. In my case, the first task instance is set to fire at 9:30AM and the second instance is now set to fire at 3:30PM.
