{"id":1325,"date":"2006-09-29T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T23:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/synk-60\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T23:45:27","slug":"synk-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/synk-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Synk 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nDecimus\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decimus.net\">Synk<\/a> has gotten a major update and now comes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decimus.net\/comparison.php\">three versions<\/a>. It can now make encrypted backups (each file individually) and compress archived files. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decimus.net\/zeroscan.php\">ZeroScan<\/a> feature makes it much faster at determining which files have changed. Instead of scanning the source and destination directories, it observes file system activity in the background, keeping a running list of the changes so that when it\u2019s time to sync it already knows what needs to be done. This is a great idea, although personally I prefer the safety of the slower compare-at-backup-time method.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nRight now, I\u2019m using <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/24\/my-new-backup-strategy\/\">DropDMG for DVD backups<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/SuperDuper\/\">SuperDuper!<\/a> to maintain a clone, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/fixing-rsync-on-tiger\/\">rsync<\/a> for syncing with my PowerBook. But, assuming the memory use is now reasonable when syncing lots of files (as was promised for 6.0), I\u2019ll probably find a use for Synk, too.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decimus\u2019 Synk has gotten a major update and now comes in three versions. It can now make encrypted backups (each file individually) and compress archived files. The new ZeroScan feature makes it much faster at determining which files have changed. Instead of scanning the source and destination directories, it observes file system activity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}