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    Bonkey

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Bonkey info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to Bonkey
    Despite a name that conjures up comedic visions, Bonkey the Backup Monkey is a serious backup program with tremendous potential. Not that it isnt good now; The program is easy to use, puts all the relevant options at your fingertips and backs up to multiple locations--including ftp or sftp locations, across the network, local folders and even SQL databases and Amazons S3 online backup service. Files are either zipped into an archive or copied as is so you can browse them using Windows Explorer.
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    Features Vote on or suggest new features

    • Encrypted backups
    • File-sync

    Comments and Reviews Post a comment / reviewSort: relevance • date

    mardisbagley
    Comment • about 11 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
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    I really like Bonkey. It's free, it's easy, it's smart. But, it is limited in the total number of files it can monitor and transfer in a given sync session. If I remember correctly, it brings up a Java error when attempting to read or transfer too much data.

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    Oldarney
    Comment • almost 12 years ago • 0 replies
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    Open source, free multiplatform. Supports FTP backups runs in the background and is very flexible. Allows for multiple targets and intelligent syncing. I love it, this is the best thing i could find in about 10 hours of research. the next thing to it would be SyncBackPro, but thats not available on mac and isn't free. This is the filezilla of backup.

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    cy6ernauti1us
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    • Negative comment • 5 months ago • 0 replies
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    It's just some coder's side-project. And not updated since 2010!!!

    The website is on BlogSpot. The download link is on a Google Site. And the code is on SourceForge.

    Not matter what glowing paeans may have been posted in the comments, I would be extremely cautious playing around with this little toy. Even if it's completely benign, it's just too old -- it's manual refers to Windows Vista as the "latest"!

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    Oldarney
    Comment • over 11 years ago • 0 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    Serious issues with FTP backup, it will do a full backup every time, even with "back up modified files" selected.

    JaBack is very similar to Bonkey...

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    Oldarney
    Comment • over 11 years ago • 0 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    Never mind jaback, its a road kill. No real FTP regardless of what they say. Their other programs do have FTP clients, but not JaBack.

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    Category

    Backup & Sync

    Tags

    • file-backup
    • ftp-backup
    • compressed-backup
    • snapshot
    Bonkey

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     Official Website
    Bonkey

    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Bonkey, and it has gotten 5 likes

    • Developed by Bonkey the Backup Monkey
    • Open Source and Free product.
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    Bonkey was added to AlternativeTo by Oldarney on Jun 6, 2009 and this page was last updated Oct 13, 2020.
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