Time to say goodbye to Hasleo Software ...

[admin]

Well, we were looking for a backup software, that has a handy GUI to create jobs to clone files from one partition to another (source partition remains untouched), which is reliable and where jobs can be scheduled easily including job log.

Copy and Robocopy are not reliable, especially when it comes down to permissions, where files may be skipped and both are not very handy to use.

I am a command line guy that grew up with MS-DOS and even former home computers, so I am used to it, but on the other hand we are in 2025 now and doing file clones with basic command line tools is somewhat outdated!

What you're describing sounds like file synchronization, and there are already very mature products available on the market.

[Marcy]

Well, you could call it FileSynchronization, I call it FileCloning, because such a feature clones all files from a source to a target location, just like DiskClone clones all blocks of a source disk to a target disk.

Programs like e.g. FreeFileSync to me are not very handy to be honest. It should be simpler, like creating a clone job for a partition or disk and ArcServe at those time did a fantastic job. Unfortunately this feature was removed iirc.

[Froggie]

Well, we were looking for a backup software, that has a handy GUI to create jobs to clone files from one partition to another (source partition remains untouched), which is reliable and where jobs can be scheduled easily including job log.

Copy and Robocopy are not reliable, especially when it comes down to permissions, where files may be skipped and both are not very handy to use.

I am a command line guy that grew up with MS-DOS and even former home computers, so I am used to it, but on the other hand we are in 2025 now and doing file clones with basic command line tools is somewhat outdated!

Bvckup2 (best in class)

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[n8chavez]

I use robocopy daily. It's an awesome CL tool that is very powerful, if you know how to use it. There is also the built-in xcopy, which is also very good. The point being, there is no point in reinventing the wheel.