Sync

With the Sync function, you log on to the various PCs you have access to via the same user account and the application will set up and synchronise identical copies of your Sync-folders on all of these computers.

This is useful if you have a PC at home, for example, and want to have access to the same files at home as you do at work without the need to send the files home, log into your job- or home network or physically take the files with you.

The upload commences the moment you have chosen the files you want to synchronise. How long this takes depends on the capacity of your internet connection and you are able choose how much of this capacity the program is allowed to use.

Individual: You have several PCs at home and want to have copies of some files on all machines so that they are easily accessible. You log on with the same user name on all of the computers and the Sync folders you set up on the first PC will automatically be set up on all the other machines as well.

Business: How many of us have had the experience of trying to work from home just to find that certain files you wanted to work with had been left on your work computer? By setting up a Sync, you can simply log into your home computer using the same user name as you do at work and Mamut Online Backup will automatically create a Sync-file on your home PC. When you get back to work, all the work you did at home the night before will be updated on your work machine as well.

When you log in from another computer, the program will make sure that all folders in your synchronisation tasks are transferred to your current computer.

If, for example, you have set up that the folder My documents should be synchronised on your work PC, you will find that when you log into Mamut Online Backup at home the program downloads all the files the way they were on your work machine to your home computer.

You will not be asked to include a separate Mamut Key when setting up a Sync. When you start up the other machine and log yourself in using the same account, you will find that your Sync folders are also available on this computer. However, if you set up your computers with different Mamut Keys, you will need to enter the Mamut Key for the machine you sent from when you want to receive the Syncdata on the other computer.

If you are running different Mamut Online Backup accounts on different machines, you will have to set up a Share instead should you want to work with the same folders on different computers.

Note! If there are several people using computers with the same Windows user account, you need to be aware of the fact that the synchronisation works in such a way as to always upload the most current file, which is then copied to the other computer(s). Thus you ought to be careful with running a synchronisation for folders that are in use on several machines at the same time.