Syncing laptop and network

[Guest Steve Freides]

If I am working on Autocad files, I have to be careful about how I move

things or my drawing will lose the ability to find the other drawings on

which it depends. I also have been known to mess up a file I've taken home

from the network, therefore I am looking for a good way to do the following:

 

1. Take a folder from my network which has drawing and sub-folders in it -

copy that folder to my local drive on the laptop to work on it over the

weekend. This works OK now - copying an entire folder seems to preserve the

relationship between files, so I keep all the needed drawings in sub-folders

of the main folder for each project I'm working on.

 

2. On Monday morning, return the entire folder/project to the network, but

have the files/folders on the network backed up and/or renamed first, e.g.,

if my project is in a folder called MyProject, then what I want to happen

when I redock my laptop at work is:

 

* The folder MyProject gets renamed/copied to MyProject.BAK. (MyProject.BAK

could be deleted if it already exists.)

 

* The folder from my laptop would be copied onto the network and become the

new MyProject folder.

 

This would let me have a backup readily available in case, e.g., I messed

something up while working at home.

 

Is such functionality built into WindowsXP already, or is this something

that needs to be written as a program, or is there a product I can buy to do

this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-S-