Robocopy Alternatives

Apps similar to Robocopy include FreeFileSync, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Rclone, TeraCopy, rsync and FastCopy. There's no shortage of File Copy Utilities like Robocopy, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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    cwRsync is a yet another packaging of rsync and Cygwin for Windows. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization. Rsync uses the rsync algorithm which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. RoboMirror icon
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    RoboMirror's aim is to provide a user-centered GUI for Robocopy, which allows to easily synchronize two directory trees, e.g., to perform a robust incremental backup, both locally (e.g., to an external hard disk) and across the network.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  3. WinRoboCopy icon
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    WinRoboCopy is a GUI front end for Robocopy a command line file copy utility for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Robocopy
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  4.  3 likes

    PerigeeCopy has been specifically created to address annoyances with Windows Explorer's built-in file operations. PerigeeCopy is a configurable Win32 shell extension that lets you copy, move, and delete files with the ease of Explorer's GUI, while at the same time adding...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  5. DeltaCopy icon
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    Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the other hand, would only copy the part of file that has actually been modified.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  6. FolderClone icon
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    FolderClone lets you make an identical copy of a folder from one drive to another. It can copy files between a desktop computer and a laptop, or replicate data between a workstation and a server, or backup to a cloud storage provider.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. ExtremeCopy icon
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    ExtremeCopy is a Windows copy file utility which copy and move files and folders extremely fast and operation is simple,it can increase 20% ~ 120% speed up than Windows copy handler.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. KillCopy icon
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    Program for copy files by network. Can also copy files on local drives - sometimes it can speed up copy of large files by 2-3 times. User-frendly skin based interface. Build-in explorer shell make is very simple in use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  9. NiceCopier icon
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    NiceCopier is a simple, easy-to-use and handy instrument designed to replace the File Explorer file copy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10.  2 likes

    Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Order66 icon
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    A no fuss, cross-platform, single host, local file sync alternative to Windows Robocopy and Linux/Unix Rsync.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. TurboCopy Pro icon
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    Copy and Paste on Mac at Turbo Speeds with Turbo Copy Pro! Completes features which are missing from Copy and Paste on your Mac

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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