sync to external drive

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:

> Gary J. Kirkpatrick schreef op 30-11-2017 7:06:
>
> Rather overwhelmed with all the responses.  What I am looking for is
>> syncing not just copying, like say Dropbox does.  So the program would make
>> an initial copy and then only add new files or changes to previously copied
>> files.  I have tried a couple of programs mentioned but what they do is
>> make another copy of the entire initial copy.  This is way too slow and
>> unnecessarily stresses the drives involved.
>>
>
> FreeFileSync doesn't make new copies.
>
> Thanks.
>
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Freefile is not installing

W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/freefilesync/ffs/ubuntu xenial
Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore
potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration
details.
E: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.launchpad.net/freefilesync/ffs/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages
404  Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones
used instead.
gary16 at gary16:~$ sudo apt-get install freefilesync
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package freefilesync

I;ve searched around for a more recent ppa etc without success

Backintime could only find command line versions.

Spinning my wheels.

garyk

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