Robocopy Alternatives

Robocopy is described as 'Or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.0, and was introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008' and is a File Copy utility in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Robocopy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Robocopy alternative is FreeFileSync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Robocopy are TeraCopy, Rclone, rsync and FastCopy.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    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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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Order66 icon
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    A no fuss, cross-platform, single host, local file sync alternative to Windows Robocopy and Linux/Unix Rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Rclone GUI icon
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    A GUI for Rclone, with additional features including batch file generation, auto cloud setup, and saved file/folder paths.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. 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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  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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