FreeFileSync
If you manually backup folders, or perhaps transfer files from portable devices to your HDD regularly, FreeFileSync is a great application for doing the job effectively and efficiently.
While it won't win any beauty contests, FreeFileSync's interface is super functional. Drag and drop folders you want to compare or synchronize, the click the fat buttons to start the process. Compare simply brings up any differences in the two folders, while synchronizing can be done in a variety of ways. 'Two way' will copy or update files from both folders to each other (so both are identical afterwards), 'mirror' overwrites the right folder with the left's content, while 'update' just copies new or updated files to the right folder.
FreeFileSync does its job excellently. It is not automated, but it's quick and easy to use, and asks just the right number of questions before anything happens, so you won't lose files accidentally. You can tell it to use the recycle bin too, just to be on the safe side.
Features:
- Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
- No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
- Subfolders are also synchronized, including empty folders.
- Network support.
- Lean & easy accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data.
- Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
Focus on usability:
- Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle.
- Select folders via drag & drop.
- Last configuration and screen settings are saved automatically.
- Maintain and load different configurations by drag&drop, load-button or commandline.
- Double-click to show file in explorer.
- Copy & paste support to export file-lists.
- Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid.
- Right-click context menu.
- Progress indicators, status information and error reporting.
- Sort file-lists by name, size or date.
- Display statistical data: total filesizes, amount of bytes that will be transfered with the current settings.
- Easy configurable commandline mode for automated synchronization.
- Support for filesizes > 4 GB.
- Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them.
- UTC (coordinated world time) is used when comparing file times avoiding problems with time zones or daylight saving time.
- Automatically ignore directories "\RECYCLER" and "System Volume Information" when comparing and syncing.
- Localized German version available.
- Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages with large sync-operations.
- Based on wxWidgets framework => Portable to many operating systems.
- Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without re-compare!).
- Include/exclude specific files from synchronization manually.
- Create sync jobs via GUI to synchronize automatically (can be scheduled or executed directly).
OS Requirements:
Linux/Win 2k/Win XP/
Vista/Win 7
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