rsync Alternatives for Windows

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. Private. None of your data is ever stored anywhere else other than on your computers. There is no central server that might be compromised, legally or illegally. Encrypted. All communication is secured using TLS.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Android Tablet ... BSD Self-Hosted Cloudron

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux openSUSE Linux Mint ... CentOS Ubuntu Debian

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Cryptomator

Cryptomator provides transparent, client-side encryption for your cloud. Protect your documents from unauthorized access. Cryptomator on the desktop is free and open source software, so you can rest assured there are no backdoors. Cryptomator for Android/iOS costs a small fee and is not open source, but it uses an open-core component that can be checked for backdoors. Easy and Reliable We understand simplicity as a key aspect of security.

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... iPad

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Rclone

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from: - Google Drive - Amazon S3 - Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore - Dropbox - Google Cloud Storage - Amazon Cloud Drive - Microsoft One Drive - Hubic - Backblaze B2 - Yandex Disk - The local filesystem Features - MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity - Timestamps preserved on files - Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis - Copy mode to just copy...

• Supports a wide variety of cloud services, easy to set up with most I've tried. Guest • Feb 2019 Disagree   Agree
• It works very well on many platforms. The only complaint is that, much like rsync, you have to familiarize yourself with a bunch of "command line" parameters to be able to use it. varian93 • Aug 2018 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Solaris ... FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD

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GoodSync

GoodSync is a high-end professional easy and reliable file backup and file synchronization software. The software automatically backs up and syncs your files between any computer, mobile device or drive; with or without using the cloud. There is a free trial period of 30 days, after which usage is severely restricted (down to 3 jobs and 100 files). - File Sync GoodSync syncs files between your computer, mobile devices, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, SkyDrive, WebDAV, Azure.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad

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SyncBack

SyncBack is a tool to backup, synchronize, and restore data files. · Free: SyncBackFree (Windows) is a simple backup and restore solution at no cost. · Paid: SyncBackSE (Windows, macOS*, Linux* and Android*) is a Windows solution for home users to backup their personal data. A single license is good for up to 5 installations under a single residential address for computers and/or devices owned by the licensee.

• Only supports insecure remote backups, very irresponsible Guest • Nov 2015 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

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Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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SyncToy

SyncToy is a free PowerToy designed by Microsoft, that provides an easy to use graphical user interface that can automatically synchronize local or network files and folders, but not WebDAV-, "Windows Mobile" files or folders and no triangle-sync as only Allway Sync, Synkron, SyncLess or GoodSync can do. No VSS-support, not portable.

• Discontinued Latest version 2.1 published on 11/24/2009

Free Windows

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Bvckup 2

Simple fast backup for Windows. At a glance - small and very lean, very fast delta copier, excellent user interface, device tracking, shadow copying, move/rename detection, run-as-a-service mode, robust support for multi-million item backups with terabytes of data, intelligent and discrete update mechanism. Ideal for backups going to external USB drives and NAS devices.

Commercial Windows

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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).

Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce

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Toucan

Toucan is a small portableapp utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want. Features: * Five synchronisation modes, Copy, Mirror, Equalise, Move and Clean. These can be combined with a variety of file checks such as File Size, Modified Time and a File Header Check to minimise the amount of copying needed.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

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DirSync Pro

DirSync Pro is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively. Use DirSync Pro to easily synchronize files from your desktop PC to your USB-stick. Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Bacula

Bacula is a set of Open Source, enterprise ready, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. In technical terms, it is an Open Source, enterprise ready, network based backup program.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD

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Synkron

Synkron is an application for folder synchronisation and folder-backups that allows you to configure your synchronisations in detail. Despite having many features, the user interface of Synkron is very user-friendly and easy to use. Synkron is able to synchronise multiple folders at once, analyse folders before sync, restore overwritten or deleted files, plan synchronisations and much more.

• Discontinued Last Update: 2014-10-11, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/synkron/

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com

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SyncFolders

SyncFolders helps you to synchronize the contents of two folders, including any subfolders. The folders may be on different disk drives, on the network, or storage devices attached to the USB port, including external hard disk drives, flash drives, and any other type of USB storage device. The program allows you to easily copy new and updated files and folders in either or both directions. SyncFolders is a very useful tool for backup and synchronization purposes.

Free Windows

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Syncovery

Back up your data and synchronize PCs, Macs, servers, notebooks, and online storage space. You can set up as many different jobs as you need and run them manually or using the scheduler. The software comes with support for FTP, SSH, HTTP, WebDAV, and Amazon S3. You can use ZIP compression and data encryption. On Windows NT/2000 or higher, the scheduler can run as a service - without users having to log on.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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Arq

Arq is super-easy online backup Back up your files automatically, to your own cloud account, with Arq. Just connect Arq to your own Google Drive account, Amazon Web Services account, SFTP server, Greenqloud account, DreamObjects account, or any S3-compatible server. Everything is encrypted before transfer, so your files are safe and secure. Arq backs up your files automatically, every hour.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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Create Synchronicity

Create Synchronicity is a nice, lightweight backup program with a very user-friendly - yet powerful - interface, that synchronizes files and folders extremely quickly (it can even recognize paths such as "MyUSB"\MyFolder, and locate the USB drive called "MyUSB"). Its open source, fully portable, and multilingual ; and it can schedule backups and has many advanced options like DST correction and regexp settings.

• Discontinued The project is on a long hiatus. Last version, 6.0, released in March 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows

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Allway Sync

Allway Sync is a file and folder synchronization software for Windows. It is FREE for personal use (with limitations), however, you should pay for a Pro license if you use this software for a commercial purpose or to process more than 40,000 files in a 30-day period. It is together with GoodSync the only free high professional synchronisation tool, able to address WebDAV-Remote Memory, Windows Mobile SD-Cards, all Windows Mobile files, FTP Remote Memory or Amazon S3 online storage.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows PortableApps.com

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Veeam Agents

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux work with Veeam Availability Suite to deliver Availability for ALL workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — from a single management console, extending Veeam’s leadership position from being the best for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to #1 Availability for any app, any data on any cloud.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Linux

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Robocopy

Robocopy, 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. Robocopy is notable for capabilities above and beyond the built-in Windows copy and xcopy commands, including the following: • Ability to tolerate network interruptions and resume copying.

Free Windows

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Restic

Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that in the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated. Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Nobody does backups if it takes too much time.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Arch Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD

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Areca Backup

Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups. It also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

• Discontinued Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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Qtd Sync

A graphical interface for the Rsync engine that will synchronise files between two computers either locally or over the internet. The beauty of Rsync is that it only transfers the exact part of a file that has changed (differential synchronisation), saving bandwidth and time. This is not a cloud service like dropbox or sugarsync, but will sync between two computers over the net, a lan or to an external drive.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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PureSync

PureSync is a professional file backup and synchronization software, that can automatically keep a backup of your important files, import files from your digital camera and synchronize the contents of multiple folders, but not from "Windows Mobile" devices and no webDAV-folder, as Allway Sync or GoodSync does. No portable app.

Free Personal Windows

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