SyncBack Freeware is a free software that backs up & synchronizes files and directories.

Platform: Windows

SyncBack Freeware is a free version of this file backup & synchronization program that can be used with hard drives, rewritable CD's & DVD's (formatted with UDF), removable media (e.g. Compact Flash), FTP servers, ZIP archives, and network shares. It's easy to use, but includes many options for the power user. SyncBack is 100% free for personal, educational, charity, government, and commercial use.

SyncBack is also available in a number of other languages, e.g. Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian, and Catalan.

Why you need SyncBack

As you work on your computer you'll find there are times when you wish you had a backup. Perhaps you've inadvertently deleted a file you shouldn't have, perhaps you need to roll-back your work to a previous time and date, perhaps you have a laptop and a desktop you need to synchronize via FTP.

SyncBack can help you with all these tasks and more.

Full Feature List

SyncBack packs a powerful punch of useful feature set that includes:

1. Backup Files
2. Restore Files
3. Synchronize Files
4. Background Backups & synchronisations
5. Easy Mode, Expert Mode, and RunTime Mode
6. Export and Import Profiles
7. Simulated Run and Restore
8. Schedule a backup job
9. HTML and Text Logs
10. Set Differences Window
11. Show Groups Only
12. Hibernate or Standby
13. Start with Windows
14. Definable Double-Click Actions
15. Minimise Program Options
16. File Filtering
17. Compare Options
18. Compression with options
19. Compare files options
20. FTP Capabilities
21. Network Capabilities
22. Eject Source Drive Media post task
23. Select programs to run before and after task
24. Select programs to close before task
25. Right Click Menu
26. Manual or Auto Update Check
27. Online tutorials

Basic Concepts

• What is a SyncBack Profile

  When SyncBack is first launched a dialogue window opens asking you whether you would like to create a profile. A profile stores information about the folders or files you would like to backup or synchronize using SyncBack. Once you've created a profile you'll be able to click a single button on the toolbar to carry out a specified task in the future.

• Profile types:

  There are three types of profiles you can create:

  1. Backup: for copying files to another directory, drive, FTP server, etc.
  2. Synchronisation: for keeping the contents of two directories identical.
  3. Group: contains links to other profiles.

  

• Schedule SyncBack to run automatically

  SyncBack interfaces with the Windows Task Scheduler to allow you to run profiles automatically at certain times, e.g. run a backup profile every day at 5am. On Windows XP you can access the task scheduler via the Start menu (All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks).

• Restoring a Backup

  A restore operation swaps the source and destination directories: i.e. the source directory becomes the destination directory and visa-versa. A restore may not work the way you expect: e.g. some of the files in the destination directory may be older than their equivalent entries in the source and therefore may not replace the source entries (depending upon what your settings are).

  Restoring a backup in SyncBack is a simple matter of selecting a profile and clicking the 'Restore' button located in the lower menu or from the main menu under 'Task'.

How to validate the SyncBack download

As you work on your computer you'll find there are times when you wish you had a backup. Perhaps you've inadvertently deleted a file you shouldn't have, perhaps you need to roll-back your work to a previous time and date, perhaps you have a laptop and a desktop you need to synchronize via FTP. SyncBack can help you with all these tasks and more. Download SyncBack here.

After you download and unzip SyncBack, you will see two text files SHA1.txt and MD5.txt in the uncompressed folder. These two files contain hash values that can be used to validate the SyncBack download - SyncBack_Setup.zip.

You can use HashCalc to validate SyncBack. HashCalc is a fast and easy-to-use hash calculator that allows to compute checksum values and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings. It offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations.