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Keeping two computers synced up
I make my entire living on a computer but am not an IT person and really don't know enough about PC's.
I recently fought with a computer to clean it up then finally reinstalled Windows 7.
I am wondering of keeping two computers for business make sense.
I use the same laptop in two locations at home. I do most of my work at a desk with a docking station and two monitors, I use it like a desktop at my main desk. When I fill orders I carry the computer and use it alone in a room I call my clean room.
I do sometimes take the computer other places to work.
I am thinking about getting two more docking stations and two more identical computers.
Two for work and one for non-work related activities. If I had a second computer that was maybe a week behind on being synched up I would have had no problems.
Is there a easy way to keep to identical laptops synched up maybe 1 week apart from each other?
I think it would make life much easier for me as I would have less downtime even with things on an external hard drive.
I guess what I want to do is have two computers set up identically but synched up weekly as well as an external hard drive also synched up weekly.
I could keep one computer at my main desk, one in my clean room to process orders and if anything goes wrong the second computer could move back and forth until I am up and running again.
I am thinking my non-work computer could be the same so I can also use the docking stations.
Is this a good strategy to avoid downtime? Is synching up laptops a fast and easy thing to do? Will the synch up go both directions?
I am worried about the both direction things. Lets say I put something on one computer and then later put something on the other computer and synch them up?