Automatic backup to ReadyNAS?

http://www.syncback.com

Look at SE or Pro version.

http://quicklytech.com/

The author is responsive by email and also hangs around here.

If you're truly doing this for Backup, as opposed to making an updated file available across-your-network i.e. to other PCs, then I question that you'd want to alway "propagate changes". What if you've messed-up a file, or deleted it, on your laptop and need the last version--your "continuous backup" has the bad (or no) file on it to (try to) recover from.

I use syncback to backup my files to my NAS every day, keeping a week's worth of files before over-writing. Then I backup each month. So I have 7 plus 12 or 19 sets of files on my NAS at all times.

On my main computer with critical files I also have a 32Gb USB3.0 thumb/flash drive. For a laptop I'd think a flash drive for "continuous file backups" might be nice as it's with you whether connected to your network or not...

maxblack wrote:
If you're truly doing this for Backup, as opposed to making an updated file available across-your-network i.e. to other PCs, then I question that you'd want to always "propagate changes"...

I agree that a continuous backup scheme needs to be able to roll back to previous versions and also recover deleted files. Otherwise you have no protection against user error - and your protection against disk failure is also not as strong as you'd want. For instance if a directory gets corrupted so no files are seen, you wouldn't want the backup to irrevocably delete the files on the copy.

Thanks everyone - good points. I have used SyncBack Free in the past; I just took a look at the features for the SE verison and it looks like it will do what I want. It says it supports versioning, so between that and the automatic backup (I think it works the way I want, I need to try it) I should be all set.