Among numerous backup and file synchronization tools available everywhere on the Web, SyncBackFree stands out for two reasons – its comprehensive and detailed approach to these tasks and its costless nature. This tool allows any user to create specific profiles to address the more complex (and also the simplest) requirements that we may have regarding backing up and syncing our data.
The program’s profile-based approach makes it both a bit harder to fathom as compare with other backup tools and also a great deal more precise. The time you may spend in familiarizing with its workflows will be highly compensated by the results. Getting the right profile to fit your specific needs may take you a few minutes and a couple of simulated tasks (to avoid irreversible unwanted results), but once you’ve set up your profile all you’ll have to do is select it and click on the “Run” button to watch the program perform its magic.
The program’s interface is simple, clean, and clear – sometimes it looks too simple and clear, forcing you to open the Help file to know more about how to proceed in designing your profiles. There is a Simple mode and there is also an Advanced mode, but whatever learning curve you decide to decide to face, it does pay off in the long run, especially if you take this task seriously and read all the warnings that the program sends you every now and then regarding the fact that it’ll be deleting and overwriting files for good.
The program offers you all the possible combinations – back up files, synchronize files and folders in both directions, schedule your backups, send logs via e-mail automatically, restore from backups, run programs before and after the backup task, etc. Just pay attention to the instructions in the Help file, follow the required steps carefully and you’ll end up with a powerful backup and synchronization tool that not only costs you nothing but delivers the promised results in the best possible way. I can’t recommend it enough – just give it a try and see if it is as capable of solving your backup needs as it did with mine.
v7.4.0 [Oct 20, 2015]
SyncBackFree V7.4.0.0 (October 2015):
- Fixed: Leading and trailing space characters were being trimmed off when saving passwords and the standard settings encryption was being used.
- Fixed: Custom colours loaded and saved when setting profile background colour in main window.
- Fixed (Free): Installer was putting debug.ini into wrong folder.
- Fixed: SQLite3 Error 21 - library routine called out of sequence.
- Fixed: File and folder exclusions from Differences window not saved correctly.
- Fixed: Partial selection not shown for all parent folders in file and folder selections windows when a folder untick.
- Fixed: Selections may fail to be used if case does not match.
- Fixed: File and folder selections may not have been converted correctly, will now reconvert.
- Fixed (Free): Windows 10 does not allow a schedule to be created with the Do not store password option unless process running as administrator.
- Updated: Reduced program start-up time when there are many profiles.
- Updated: Profile settings conversions now protected by mutex to stop multiple SyncBack processes converting profiles at the same time.
- Updated: If there are profiles in same folder as SyncBack and cannot be used because of access rights then user prompted to export them.
