- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 12, 2008
- Total Downloads: 393,788
- Downloads last week: 4,021
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 234 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This straightforward backup utility makes it a snap to safeguard and synchronize your files, and its freeware price just sweetens the deal. Surprisingly flexible for a free program, SyncBack can save your files anywhere: on external hard drives, in ZIP archives, on network drives, on CDs (using UDF), or transfer them via FTP. Recovering from a drive loss is also cinch, with a convenient restore tool that replicates folder trees along with the files in them.
It lets you define multiple scheduled backup jobs so you can just set 'em and forget 'em, allowing users to create specific backup jobs for certain folders or file types. You can control the way files are compared and selected for backup: the program comes with ready-made profiles to make the process as easy as possible. It's hard not to like that SyncBack doesn't use many system resources when working in the background, and backups can be set to export their logs to an HTML file for easy viewing. All in all, it's an excellent choice for home users and small businesses.
Publisher's description
From 2BrightSparks :Easily backup, synchronize, or restore your files to another drive, FTP server, ZIP file, networked drive, or removable media. Highly configurable, SyncBack includes: detailed, easy to read log files; email results; simulated backups and restore; file filters; sub-directory selection; copy verification; background backups; auto-close of programs; easy and expert modes; profile groups; compare files, and an extensive context sensitive help file.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 234 votes
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Version: SyncBack Freeware 3.2.19.0
"Free for personal or commercial use, reliable and easy!"
Pros: - Very good price...free!
- Free for both personal and commercial use
- Used for many years and proven reliable
- Feature rich
- Always return to SyncBack after trying other softwareCons: - Free version is not portable
Summary: I recommend this to everyone looking for back up software.
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Version: SyncBack Freeware 3.2.19.0
"IT CAN WORK - but read menu closely"
Pros: I simply backed C drive to a D location, and selected in opts to clear the archive bit. Then later I selected that same backup "profile" and chose "modify" to get quite a few opts to run a bkup of files that were changed & done on a scheduled basis.
Cons: Side note: it may state backup failed, but that's because it did not get files in use. Back you system with another program, and use this one for daily changes backups.
Summary: I LIKE THE DIRECTORY TREE of every file shown in the archive, just like on your C drive. That makes finding any file FAST as each file is compressed well. You will not be looking at arc002 and the like with no clue where a file is. - programs that ... read more >>
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Version: SyncBack Freeware 3.2.19.0
"A very good program for synchronizing files"
Pros: Quite fast in synchronizing files. Automatic synchronizing is possible through scheduling of synchronization
Cons: It is not possible to organize or schedule synchronization of files from different directories/drives to another location in one go.
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Version: SyncBack Freeware 3.2.19.0
"Likely great if you can configure it the way you want."
Pros: The program appears to be very good.
Cons: Perhaps the program has this and I missed seeing it, but I would find use of an ascii file where I could indicate choices as:
\subdir\ch*.*
\subdir\*.xls
\subdir2\*.*
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SyncBack Freeware 3.2.19.0
"Didn't like the software so I deleted it."
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