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)
Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.
All your documents and settings will be restored to the exact same state they were in when the last snapshot was taken. Redo Backup and Recovery is a live CD, so it does not matter if you use Windows or Linux. You can use the same tool to backup and restore every machine. And because it is open source released under the GPL, it is completely free for personal and commercial use.
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.
rsvndump is a command line tool that is able to dump a Subversion repository that resides on a remote server. All data is dumped in the format that can be read an written by svnadmin dump, so the data which is produced can easily be importerd into a new Subversion repository.
Actually, a remote dump can be done using svnsync and svnadmin dump on the locally synced repository. However, if the remote server does not run Subversion 1.5 or later, svnsync is unable to dump subdirectories of a repository only. This can be solved by syncing the whole repository and using svndumpfilter afterwards, but data of other subdirectories needs to be transferred over the network for no reason. And if you don't have access to the repository root, the whole thing will not work.
Long story short: If you want to dump a subdirectory of a remote repository which runs a version of Subversion prior to 1.5, this is the right tool for you. If not, please consider using svnsync.
rsvndump is written in C and built on top of the Subversion API, so it can offer all functionality needed to access a Subversion repository, including SSL authentication. And it's GPLed.
Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server.
RESTORE was developed by Holonyx Ruffdogs and is a free, open source, enterprise network backup and recovery solution for Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix and Linux systems. RESTORE is scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers, and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet. Holonyx Ruffdogs is placing RESTORE into the open-source community.