Syncovery
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Back up your data and synchronize PCs, Macs, servers, notebooks, and online storage space.
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Features
- Schedule Backup
- Encrypted Backup
- File Versioning
- File Sync
- Remote backup
Tags
- Encryption
- File Backup
- compressed-backup
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What is 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. There are powerful synchronization modes, including Standard Copying, Exact Mirror, and SmartTracking.
Syncovery information
Developed by
Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Rating
Average rating of 3.7Alternatives
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- English
Comments and Reviews
I've been using Syncovery since it was named "Super Flexible File Synchronizer", and it's good that the author renamed the product because let's be honest, that name sucked. As far as I'm aware, there are no genuine alternatives to Syncovery. The ones I saw here are laughable by comparison; either they lack basic features like the ability to encrypt files during backup, or they're CLI applications. Some pale in comparison and yet require a subscription, and honestly, who wants that?
Syncovery reliably backs up files to local drives or to cloud services. You can use real-time synchronization for profiles, run them on a schedule, or a combination of both. You can use VSS, optionally compress files during backup, and of course, you can encrypt file content, file names, or both. I'd have to be insane to back up my files to a cloud service without encrypting them.
I've used Syncovery to encrypt large (~200 GB) files while backing them up to Google Drive, and it works surprisingly quickly and reliably. Compressing such large files is a different story; the last time I tried that it was pretty slow. In any case, I regularly use Syncovery to back up system image files that are well over 100 GB in size to Google Drive, and it only takes ~20 minutes. It should be much faster than that, but Google Drive clearly does throttling. (Thanks, Google. My check did clear, I notice.)
Syncovery has a ton of options that can be confusing at first, but they're pretty well documented. The author is also readily available and very responsive on the web forum for all types of support requests. The Syncovery UI definitely needs improvement, but my understanding is that the next major version (which is currently in the works) will address this.
Oddly enough, Syncovery is operated via the web browser. It works well, and you can backup and synchronise to local storage, cloud services, FTP, etc., but the user interface is not very pretty. And, worse than that: the speed is very slow.
From that point of view, the prices are a bit too high for me.
Have used Syncovery for several years. Perfect Reliability.
I would really like to know with which operating systems the other users here have made their good experiences? Over the past years, I have given syncovery many times a new chance (mac OS 10.6 - 10.12), but in terms of UI/UX and stability, it is one of the most horrific applications, I can remember. It failed in the easiest tasks, frozed and crashed regulary or – the best scenario – copied parts of the job.
I have been using syncovery (from its super flexible file synchronizer avatar days ) and this is one of the best and consistently working syncing/backup programs out there. Worked flawlessly. I have used it on Vista, Windows 7 and macOS versions from leopard to Mojave. Haven't tried it on Windows 10 yet though.
Try the expert mode and run it as root user on macOS
[Edited by asphaltkisser, November 21]
[Edited by asphaltkisser, November 21]
The best i found for syncing with Dropbox and Google Drive both accurately and fast - only con that it's a little pricey but nevertheless it serves the purpose great!
I've been using Syncovery for 2+ years to make my own SuperDropbox using a tonidoplug. I call it SuperDropbox, because it grabs folders from all over, and uploads in real-time.
There are a ton of backup and sync packages out there. Syncovery is not the simplest, but that's because it allows you to set EVERY feature. Without any tweaks it is easy enough to 1)backup, 2)mirror, 3)two-way sync, 4)move. But with a little more effort, there can be so many different nuances to the way you can sync, and Syncovery seems to have thought of them all. And out of the box it will connect to Amazon S3, Google Drive, Skydrive, etc.
After having tried a whole lot of both free and commercial tools for backup I had finally realized which requirements I really had on a backup tool, and this one was the only one I found which satisfied all of them, e.g. VSS, support for move and rename, and partial file changes to name a few.
As the same suggests it is very customizable, with many settings, enabling you to get it to work exactly the way you want it to.
If you are sick and tired of the shortcomings of your current backup tool, I warmly recommend trying the evaluation version of this one!