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grsync

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Grsync is a rsync gui, a graphical user interface for the rsync file synchronization and backup tool. It works on linux, solaris, windows, mac os x and maemo. It uses the gtk libraries and can work under the gnome desktop.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Xfce
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  1.  Support for Rsync
  2.  Gtk
  3.  Synchronization

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grsync information

  • Developed by

    IT flagOPByte
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5
  • Alternatives

    40 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about grsync, and it has gotten 36 likes

grsync was added to AlternativeTo by gerbrent on Dec 6, 2010 and this page was last updated Jul 14, 2024.

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Top Positive Comment
shiki
May 19, 2020
1

grsync is not discontinued as the site states and works fine even in 2020.

arsCynic ??
Mar 31, 2024
0

Grsync lowers the barrier of entry to work with rsync by providing terse tooltips. The CLI utility of rsync is obviously excellent and greater, but not everyone needs that, and here Grsync saves the day. If all extremely useful CLI-only packages had Grsync-similar counterparts, then more people would migrate to Linux.

What is grsync?

Grsync is a rsync gui, a graphical user interface for the rsync file synchronization and backup tool. It works on linux, solaris, windows, mac os x and maemo. It uses the gtk libraries and can work under the gnome desktop.

It doesn't need the gnome libraries to run, but can of course run under gnome pretty fine. It can be effectively used to synchronize local directories and it supports remote targets as well (even though it doesn't support browsing the remote folder). Sample uses of grsync include: synchronize a music collection with removable devices, backup personal files to a networked drive, replication of a partition to another one, mirroring of files, etc.

Features

  • Most commonly used rsync options available, additional options may be specified by command line switches
  • Saves multiple settings with customized names (no limit on number of "sessions")
  • Can do simulation or normal execution
  • Captures and prints rsync output nicely on a own window and log to a file
  • Parses rsync output to display progress bars and other information
  • Highlights errors and show them on a separate window, for better and faster control over rsync runs
  • Can pause rsync execution
  • A good number of translations available
  • Can run custom commands before (and stop in case of failure) and after rsync
  • Shell script for batch, crontab use etc. provided (grsync-batch)
  • Can import and export sessions on file; i.e. share your settings with people!
  • Can minimize to system tray (status icon)
  • Can run specific sessions with superuser privileges
  • Rsync backup made easy!
  • Needs rsync installed on the system (command line tool only, no need for server-side daemon) and GTK
  • Available for free and with sources!
  • Works on many linux distributions (including Nokia Maemo), Mac OS X and windows!

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