Automator Actions – Sync Folders
- At May 18, 2009
- By ken
- In tech
How do you preserve your digital data? Are you prepared to lose a hard drive and everything on it.
At the Wilson house data integrity is a high priority. All of our family photos are digital, our music is digital, our videos (thanks to the Flip Mino) is digital. To lose a simple hard drive would be catastrophic with regards to our media.
The easiest was to protect your assets is redundancy. At our house, I have a Buffalo NAS* on my network and all crucial files are directed there via a plethora of means (manually, or automatically via Windows backup utilities). Since moving to the Mac, I’ve been seeking a way to automate the task of replicating this drive onto another external hard drive.
With this automator action I use the Mac Mini desktop to grab all of the crucial NAS files and move them to another external hard drive. It keeps the two drives in sync, creating a perfect backup. Two is better than one.
If your content is all digital (and I would guess most of you operate that way), the question is not “if it will crash,” but rather “when it will crash.” You really should consider a system for preserving your precious data. It doesn’t have to be expensive, but a little organization and preparation goes a long way toward insuring you won’t lose your data.
* Network Attached Storage
