Syncovery is a great application used to back up data and to synchronize
PCs, servers, and notebooks. Users can choose the user interface that
suits them best: Wizard Mode or Advanced Mode. The settings are stored
in multiple profiles, and the software comes with support for FTP and
secure FTP servers, SSH, WebDAV, Amazon S3, http, partial file updating,
ZIP compression, data encryption, and a scheduler for automated
backups. The scheduler can run as a service without users having to log
on. On Windows XP or later, locked files can be copied using the Volume
Shadow Service.
This program features the ability to freely select files and folders
across the whole folder hierarchy in a tree view, and it has support for
e-mail notification, profile categories, and various filters. The
software also supports Unicode characters in file names, file paths as
long as 32767 characters, and much more. It also includes Real Time
Synchronization (folder monitoring).
Here are some key features of "Syncovery":
· Synchronizes Files and complete folder structures in different
locations, such as a PC and a laptop. 64-bit I/O ensures that files
sizes greater than 4GB are supported.
· Save complete sets of option settings as Profiles, with instant access
to all saved settings. You can even Run Multiple Profiles with one
command.
· Detect Moved Files. If you reorganized your folders by moving files to
different locations, the Super Flexible File Synchronizer will detect
this and quickly perform the same moves, for example, on your laptop. No
extraneous copying!
· With Scheduler. Schedule the synchronization of your data on a backup
hard disk at a convenient time each day or as frequently as you wish.
· Smart and Flexible. If some files cannot be copied due to other
software accessing these files, the synchronizer will continue copying
the remaining files, and then retry all those files that were locked,
until all files have been copied successfully. A limit for the time
spent on retries can be specified. However, during the retry phase, the
synchronizer uses only minimal CPU resources.
· Keep Multiple Backup Versions Of Each File (optional) This feature
doesn't overwrite the backup files but renames them, until a selectable
number of different backup versions is reached. You can also specify
where to put these older backup versions (in the same folder as the
original, or in a subfolder thereof, or in just one subfolder for the
complete profile).
· Database-Aware. A special technique prevents any data corruption when
copying database files, including SQL server database files. The
synchronizer will wait with the copying until it has totally exclusive
access to the file. During the copying process, the database server will
not be able to work with the file. So, a prerequisite for using this
software as a backup tool for database files is that they are
occasionally not used (for example, at night).
· Can Use Recycle Bin for older versions of files that are overwritten.
This is a fairly unique feature because most programs will permanently
replace older versions of a file. Using Super Flexible File
Synchronizer, you will have a chance of retrieving overwritten files if
you select the appropriate options.
· Multiple File Masks (Inclusion and Exclusion) File Masks are
transparently (and swiftly!) processed. Even if you specify redundant
file masks, there will be no strange side effects.
· Select Base Folder Items. Want to synchronize only some folders? No
need for separate runs for each folder. Just specify the base folder
containing these folders, and then choose "Only Selected Items From Base
Folders...".
· Minimize Load Using Obsolete File Folders. If you occasionally move
obsolete files to a specially designated folder, this usually causes
trouble with traditional file synchronizers. They will copy the obsolete
files back from your laptop right into the folders where you moved them
out of. No longer! If you use the Select Base Folder Items option
described above, you can place a grayed checkmark next to each folder
for obsolete files. These folders are then taken into account for moving
files into them, but not for copying files out. Thus, the synchronizer
does the same moving of obsolete files on your laptop that you
previously did on the PC, but it does not waste any time copying all
obsolete files between the two machines.
· No More Trouble With Daylight Savings Time Since exact 1-hour time
differences can be ignored if the file size matches, you won't have any
more problems if the file systems of two computers are off by one hour.
If this is true only for some files, fine! The ignoring of the offset is
done in a flexible way rather than adding a fixed number to the hours
on one side.
· Easy Resuming On Disk Full. You simply make more space and ask the
software to continue copying. It can pause right in the middle of a file
until additional space is freed.
· Unattended Mode. In this mode, no questions are asked. You can specify beforehand which kinds of files may be overwritten.
· Optionally Create Exact Mirrors. If desired, you can optionally create
an exact mirror of your data, even if this means that some files are
deleted or replaced with older files.