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Richard Brown wrote: > > Bit of a weird ask here but I cannot find the answers via Google. What > I would like to do is to sync the Mac to the NAS. The NAS is acting as > a file server and we want to as often as possible sync all files to > the Mac. Is it possible please? Any ideas of a programme that would do > it? Low levels tools like rsync should work, fine for a simple backup - can just be scripted to ping the NAS once, and if the ping succeeds just run an rsync - and schedule the script to run once an hour or whatever suits. There are some MacOS specific things to know about rsync, but I can't tell you them because I'm a GNU/Linux person (Google knows) and know zip about HFS+. Recently someone mentioned "Unison", which might handle more complex cases, where both ends are changing files (as opposed to simple backup). If the NAS presents as a file system then Unison may work, but I've not used it in anger. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html