rsync Alternatives for Windows

    rsync is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Syncthing, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to rsync and loads of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to rsync are FreeFileSync (Free, Open Source), Duplicati (Free, Open Source), Rclone (Free, Open Source) and Acronis True Image (Paid).

    This page was last updated Mar 14, 2021
    1. 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.
      Almost everyone thinks Syncthing is a great alternative to rsync.
    2. FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.
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      Most users think FreeFileSync is a great alternative to rsync.
    4. Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008.
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      Duplicati does not transfer raw files, it only transfers zips of files
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    5. 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 -...
      Rclone vs rsync opinions
      Almost everyone thinks Rclone is a great alternative to rsync.
      Supports a wide variety of cloud services, easy to set up with most I've tried.
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      varian93 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.
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    6. Acronis True Image (or simply True Image) is a software product produced by Acronis that provides data protection including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Microsoft, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems.
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    8. 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.
    9. SyncBack is a tool to backup, synchronize, and restore data files. · Free: SyncBackFree (Windows) is a simple backup and restore solution at no cost.
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      Only supports insecure remote backups, very irresponsible
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    10. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows.
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    11. Simple fast backup for Windows.
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    12. 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...

      Discontinued

      Latest version 2.1 published on 11/24/2009

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