Syncovery

What is Syncovery?

You can configure as many different jobs as you need and run them manually or using the planner. Syncovery works with local hard drives, network drives, and other mounted volumes. In addition, it comes with support for FTP, SSH, HTTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, SharePoint, DropBox, Box and many other cloud storage providers. You can use ZIP compression and data encryption. The scheduler can run as a service - without users having to log on. There are powerful sync modes including standard copy, exact mirror, and SmartTracking.

Syncovery features a CAREFULLY DESIGNED GUI to make it an extremely versatile synchronization and backup tool. The wealth of features meets all the requirements that users typically have, although it is still easy to use.

• Syncs or backs up files and completes folder structures in different locations, such as PCs, Macs, laptops, or online storage. There are no limits in terms of file size, number of files, or file name size. The program fully supports Unicode characters so that you can copy file names in all languages.
• Each sync job is saved as a profile, so you only need to specify the settings once.
• You can run multiple profiles with a single click. You can also run profiles on the command line. Profiles can be created using a wizard or in advanced mode.
• Copy multiple files inparallel. You can copy between 1 and 10 files in parallel. This can greatly speed up the copying phase. Simply specify the number of simultaneous copy threads on the Files tab page when editing a profile in Advanced Mode.
• Includes a scheduler. Schedule syncing your data to a backup hard drive at a convenient time every day or as often as you like. You can also schedule profiles to run on termination or logoff. The planner can start different jobs in parallel or sequentially. In Windows, the planner can run as a service - without users having to log on.
• Support for Internet and cloud. Supports various Internet protocols, including FTP, FTPS, SFTP/SSH, WebDAV, SSL, HTTP, plus the following cloud services: Amazon S3 and supported services, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files, Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), Google Drive and Google Docs, DropBox, Box.com, and more.
• Compression and encryptionsupport. Easily zip your files and encrypt them with strong 256-bit AES encryption. To unpack and decrypt, simply use the Restore Wizard or make a copy of your profile and copy in the opposite direction.
• Detects movedfiles. If you reorganized your folders by moving files to different locations, Syncovery will detect this and quickly perform the same movements on the other side of the sync, instead of deleting and copying the files again.
• Smart tracking. This operating mode is designed for two-way synchronizations. It maintains a database of all files to detect file deletions and conflicts. Through the Configure button, you have access to the SmartTracking dialog box, where you can specify how to handle the various situations that can occur in two-way synchronizations.
• Exact mirror mode. This operating mode is designed for one-way synchronizations. In addition to copying newer files, this mode can also delete files that are no longer present on the source side, and you can replace newer files with older files if you need to create an exact mirror.
• Standalone mode. In this mode, no questions are asked while the profile is run. All relevant choices can be made in advance in profile settings.
• Copy locked files. If some files cannot be copied due to other software accessing these files, Volume Shadowing can be used in Windows XP or later to copy the files. If the files cannot be copied, the synchronizer continues to copy the remaining files and retries all locked files until all files have been successfully copied. A limit to the time spent on retries can be specified. On Macintosh and Linux, locked files can also be copied because the operating system typically does not enforce locks as strongly as Windows.
• Database security mode: This mode requires exclusive access to the files to be copied. If exclusive access is not possible, Volume Shadowing is used or the program waits until exclusive access becomes possible.
• You can use the Recycle Bin for older versions of files that areoverwritten, as well as for deleted files. This will give you the chance to recover replaced or deleted files. By default, the recycle bin is used for deletions, but not for updated files. These settings can be changed in profiles.
• File masks and filters. Several ways to select/uncheck files and folders are available.
• Daylight saving time / time zones. Due to the consistent internal use of UTC/time zone, there are rarely problems with time zone differences. However, if you find that your files have a timestamp mismatch, such as 1 hour, the program can be configured to ignore this and consider them identical - as long as the file size is the same and the difference is exactly 1 hour (or an exact difference of hours below the maximum number of hours allowed).
• Easy summary on fulldisk. You simply open up more space and ask the software to keep copying. You can pause right in the middle of a file until additional space is freed up.
• Obsolete file folders. If you occasionally move obsolete files to a specially designated folder, this will typically cause problems in traditional file synchronizers. They will copy the obsolete files back from your other machine to the folders from which you moved them. No longer! If you use the Selected Folders option, you can specify folders for obsolete files by right-clicking. These folders are considered to move files to them, but not to copy files. Thus, the synchronizer does the same movement of obsolete files on one machine that you did earlier on the other, but does not waste time copying all the obsolete files between the two machines.

System requirements

All versions of Windows since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

All Intel Macs and all versions of macOS since version 10.4 "Tiger" are supported.

Systems (x64)