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    Hiya,

    Is Sync Toy supported on Vail? With WHS v1, I don't use Folder Duplication, instead duplicating to an external USB drive every night on a schedule, so that I have the folders in a readable format without mucking about.

    As I gather DEv2 is a lot more complex, this would be even more important when I upgrade to Vail.

    Thanks

    Friday, October 22, 2010 10:43 AM

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    Sync Toy is unsupported, period. It's a tool which Microsoft developed, but which you use at your own risk.

    Personally, I don't use Sync Toy at all. Instead I use robocopy or richcopy plus custom shell scripts. Robocopy is built in Vista and newer Microsoft operating systems; richcopy is another unsupported Microsoft tool but a lot of people find it easier to use than robocopy. Either one is more robust than Sync Toy.

    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Friday, October 22, 2010 12:37 PM
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    Is there a known reason why it's not supported? I know they have FD, but it is expensive disk wise, and after all, all SyncToy/RichCopy do is offer a nice gui for copy/paste functions.

    Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:49 PM