What is FreeFileSync?
FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.
Key Features
Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
Unicode support.
Network support.
Built-in support for very long filenames (more than MAX_PATH = 260 characters).
Synchronization database for propagation of deleted files and conflict detection
Support for multiple folder pairs with distinct configuration
Full support for Windows/Linux Symbolic Links and Windows Junction Points.
Lean & easily accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data.
Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
All progress indicators optimized for maximum performance!
Create Batch Jobs for automated synchronization with or without GUI.
Focus on usability:
Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle.
Select all folders via drag & drop.
Last used configuration and screen settings are saved automatically.
Maintain and load different configurations by drag & drop, load-button or commandline.
Double-click to start external application (e.g. show file in Windows Explorer)
Copy & paste all grid data as text
Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid.
Right-click context menu.
Comprehensive status information and error reporting
Sort file-lists by name, size or date.
Support for filesizes larger than 4 GB.
Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them.
Ignore directories "\RECYCLER" and "\System Volume Information" with default Filter. (Windows only)
Localized versions are available for many languages.
Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages for large sync-jobs.
Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without requiring a re-compare!).
Include/exclude specific files from synchronization temporarily.
Automatically handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32 volumes.
Portable version available (selectable via installer).
Native 64-Bit version.
Check for updates from within FreeFileSync automatically.
Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Windows only)
Create regular backups with macros %time%, %date% within directory names
Copy file and folder create/access/modification times when synchronizing
Advanced locking strategy to allow multiple synchronization processes (e.g. multiple writers, same network share)
Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.
The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling — you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.
CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one volume to another, copying every file to create an exact replica of your source volume. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute fastest performance and highest fidelity in the industry!
DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively.
Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied.
Use DirSync Pro to easily synchronize files from your desktop PC to your USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...). Use this USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...) to synchronize files to another desktop PC.
Unlike many other synchronization software, DirSync Pro is Open Source; it is 100% free of charge, 100% free of commercial text, 100% free of advertisements and 100% free of spyware. You can use it as long as you like, without any limitations in time or funcationality. You can freely distribute it according to GPL3.
DirSync Pro is programmed completely in platform independent Java™ so it can be run under nearly every modern operating system including Windows™, Linux™ and Macintosh™.
DirSync Pro has a user-friendly User Interface which helps you configure many options to your needs. You can use DirSync Pro alsoo trough the command line which makes it very flexible for running in batches.