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.
v9.0.9.14 [Jun 1, 2019]
- SyncBack Monitor first released.
- New: Completely new modern and clean user interface with an optional dark mode. All the graphics have been changed. Care has been taken to simplify and modernize the interface but keeping it familiar to users of older versions.
- New: Per-monitor DPI scaling, so windows are scaled depending on the monitor they are on.
- New: The default font is now larger, and the same font as used in Windows 10 (Segoe UI 10 point).
- New: The log file has been modernized and improved to make it clearer. The HTML log file now includes embedded graphics. More summary detail also provided. It also now shows the total time a profile was paused.
- New: In the Tree Explorer window, you can now include/exclude files/folders without needing to first expand the folder In the Tree Explorer window, you can now include/exclude files/folders and apply to all sub-folders.
- New: The File & Folder Selection window, Differences window and File Prompt window now shows the source on the left when the profile is a backup/mirror from FTP, cloud, etc. to a local drive.
- New: New simplified Restore wizard. Includes option not to move files on restore and other options.
- New: In the main window you can filter based on the profile name.
- New: In File & Folder selections, you can export and import the selections.
- New: When profiles finish, SyncBack can now automatically exit, reboot or logout instead of just shutting down.
- New: The File & Folder selections window now has last modified column.
- New: Non-critical errors have been removed and are now warnings.
- New: You can now list all the shared settings, which profiles are using them (if any) and delete the unused ones.
- New: You can now skip a SyncBack new version. For example, if you are on v9.0 and v9.1 is available then you can ignore the new version. If a version is ignored, you will not be prompted again until a newer version, e.g. V9.2, is available. However, if you do a manual update check then it will always tell you a newer version is available.
- New (SE/Pro): Delta-copy versioning when copying files from one file system to another. Only the changes between files are stored, which greatly reduces disk space for large files such as virtual machines, databases, etc.
- New (Pro): OVH cloud support added.
- New (Pro): hubiC cloud support added.
- New (Pro): WebDAV support added.
- New (Pro): Egnyte support added.
- New (Pro): Supports restoring files archived in Azure.
- New (Pro): S3 Storage Class and new Azure Blob Tier. Previously could only set S3 Storage class, but now can do it with Azure.
- New (Pro): Supports One Zone-Infrequent Access and Intelligent Tiering storage classes on Amazon S3.
- New (Pro): Can now use Service Account Private Key files with Google Storage.
- New (SE/Pro): Can use Bing speech, so native language speech supported.
- New (SE/Pro): Two new FTP/FTPS engines and one new SFTP engine added for improved FTP server compatibility.
- New (SE/Pro): Supports new faster scanning method in CompleteFTP (requires V12.1.0 or newer).
- New (SE/Pro): FTP support improved (MFF, RMDA and AVBL supported). Tested again with FTP servers to improve performance and compatibility.
- New (SE/Pro): FTP time zone setting improved (if you use ! as first character then it overrides what the FTP server reports, e.g. !-480).
- New (SE/Pro): Can restore from multi-zip files copied from an FTP server to a local drive.
- New (SE/Pro): Delta-copy (over the network) upload and download to SyncBack Touch (Windows only).
- New (SE/Pro): Can shutdown remote Touch server (Android only, must be V1.3.11 or newer of Touch).
- New (SE/Pro): Better user feedback when searching for SyncBack Touch devices.
- New (SE/Pro): A new Android, SyncBack Monitor, application which you can use to stop, start, pause and resume profiles running on your computer (on the same local network).
- New (SE/Pro): Parallel file multi-zip (when copying to or from internal/external drive, network share, etc.).
- New (SE/Pro): Parallel local file deletes (internal/external drive, network share, etc.).
- New (Pro): Parallel cloud file uploads and downloads: S3, Azure, Egnyte, Backblaze B2, Rackspace/OpenStack and Google Storage (if using private key).
- New (SE/Pro): Profile backups are now much faster.
- New: In a profile schedule you can now view/set run time limit.
- New: In a profile schedule you can now decide what to do if scheduled task is already running.
- New: When creating new schedules, the default is not to run the schedule again if it is already running. In V8 it would run it in parallel, which can cause issues as the same profile cannot be run in parallel.
- New (SE/Pro): Files the user does not have read access rights to can now be copied to the cloud, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, Touch and MTP. Also, files copied from the cloud can replace local files the user does not have write access rights to.
