Updating files in a backup machine

[José Miguel Mayoral]

In a project I'm working on with Qlab, I have a main Mac and a backup Mac. They frequently request changes and send me files that I have to upload or replace. To ensure these changes also affect the backup, I currently create a bundle on the desktop and transfer it to the backup Mac. How can I make it so that the backup also receives and updates the files I've just received? What would be the most effective and safe way?

Thanks.

[Richard Williamson]

We use free file sync at Lightroom - you can set up folders to sync on machines and either run automatically or when you press a sync button

We sometimes find qlab backup files cause issues so tend to exclude these

Richard 

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On 12 Mar 2026, at 11:11, José Miguel Mayoral <mode...@gmail.com> wrote:

In a project I'm working on with Qlab, I have a main Mac and a backup Mac. They frequently request changes and send me files that I have to upload or replace. To ensure these changes also affect the backup, I currently create a bundle on the desktop and transfer it to the backup Mac. How can I make it so that the backup also receives and updates the files I've just received? What would be the most effective and safe way?

Thanks.

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[Rich Walsh]

ChronoSync, Synkron, rsync, FileSync – there are multiple ways to push changes from one machine to another.

For going on 20 years I’ve been keeping the master copy of the show on my computer then mounting the show computers as network volumes to run Synkron (and, lately, ChronoSync) to synchronise changes between them. I’ve never ever bundled a show. Edits on the main show machine can be pulled back to your copy then pushed up to the backup. I think I’ve rarely ended up in the situation where the different copies of the workspace can’t be literally identical due to machine-specific settings.

Rich

> On 12 Mar 2026, at 11:11, José Miguel Mayoral <mode...@gmail.com> wrote:
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[Drew]

I use rsync for this job but it is something you need to be very careful with syntax.  I trigger a shell script from qlab at the end of each day for this and it also backs up to a portable drive connected to the backup machine and sends to my remote server.