SyncBack
Backup and synchronization tool


SyncBack has established itself as world-class in the field of backup and synchronization software. Whether you're a beginner or advanced user, at home or work, SyncBack ensures your most valuable asset, data, remains protected.

Backup - Protect your data
Restore - Recover your lost files easily
Copy Open Files - Backup live documents
Versioning - Keep previous versions
Incremental Backups - Does what is required
FTP and Email - Online access
Performance & Throttling - As fast as can be
Synchronize - Work with 2 or more computers
Secure - Keep confidential data private
Compression - Keep your files small
Automation - Set it and forget it
Advanced Customization - A superb array of options
Vista and 64-bit Compatible - Tested and optimized for Vista

Last Updated 19 May 2010
Win XP/2003/Vista/7

PureSync
File synchronizer and backup tool

Synchronize files and folders, backup files, copy files from a digital camera to your computer with ease.

Synchronize
- Synchronize files and folders, FTP

Backup
- Backup of files and complete folders

Transfer files
- transfer files to another computer
- automatic adaption to the folder at the destination Pc e.g. C:\Users instead of C:\Documents ...

Compare view
- Control what will be synced in which direction

Automatic synchronization and backups
- Scheduler
- when a file has been modified

Special Photo-Sync for digital cameras
- copy e.g. only the new photos from the camera-. Though photos that have been sorted out but still at the camera are not copy again.

Last Updated 25 May 2010
Win XP/2003/Vista/7

Microsoft SyncToy 2
Copy, move & rename files between folders and computers

SyncToy 2.0 for Windows is available as a free download from the Microsoft Download Center. The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers.

There are files from all kinds of sources that we want to store and manage. Files are created by our digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different computers (such as a laptop and a desktop) to store, manage, retrieve, and view files. Yet managing hundreds or thousands of files is still largely a manual operation.

In some cases it is necessary to regularly get copies of files from another location to add to primary location; in other cases there is a need to keep two storage locations exactly in sync. Some users manage files manually, dragging and dropping from one place to another and keeping track of whether the locations are synchronized in their heads. Other users may use two or more applications to provide this functionality.

Now there is an easier way. SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity.

SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another case. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.

Last Updated 25 May 2010
Win XP/Vista

Allway Sync
File and folder synchronization software

Allway Sync uses innovative synchronization algorithms to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Allway Sync combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy-to-use interface.

Major Features

Allway Sync is Free for moderate personal use
.It's free Sync Software (with limitations, see details).
.Does not contain any spyware, adware or malware.
.You can install this PC sync software on as many computers as you need.
.Licenses for business use are available.

Easy-to-Use Windows Interface
.Do multiple-folder synchronization routinely with just one click.
.Automatic, on-screen, context-sensitive hints.
.Simple setup lets you start right away.
.Multilingual user interface localized to support more than 30 languages.

Performs real all-way file and folder synchronization
.File modifications and deletions are tracked in a database.
.Innovative algorithms do not rely on system clock accuracy.
.True folder (directory) synchronization.
.Supports virtually all file systems.
.Edition to install on USB drive is available (see details).

One synchronization software provides all these solutions
.Sync data between your desktop PC and laptop (notebook).
.Replicate and back-up data between your home and office computers.
.Synchronize more than two directories.
.Update and back-up files over a local network or the Internet.
.Synchronize removable devices (USB key, flash drive, CDRW) with a local drive. Get both the performance of local drives and the mobility of removable drives. USB key lost or damaged? Your local drive always has an up-to-date copy. Hard drive crash? Your removable drive has the most current version of all your critical data.

Last Updated 25 May 2010
Win 98/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista

GoodSync
Sync files across computers and USB keys

GoodSync is an easy and reliable file backup and file synchronization software. It automatically analyzes, synchronizes, and backs up your emails, precious family photos, contacts, MP3s, financial documents, and other important files locally - between desktops, laptops, servers, external drives, and Windows Mobile devices, as well as remotely through FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and more.

Never Lose Your Emails, Photos, MP3s, etc...
GoodSync file synchronization software combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy to use interface to compare, synchronize, and backup your emails, contacts, photos, iTunes, MP3s, and other important files.

Automatically Sync or Back Up to Multiple Devices
Automatically synchronize and back up your important files between desktops, laptops, servers, and external drives over a network or the Internet. Using an innovative synchronization algorithm -- GoodSync file sync software is years ahead of the pack when it comes to file synchronization.

Easy and Automated
Keep your files backed up and up to date with one click, eliminate information clutter, and most importantly begin enjoying your peace of mind, knowing that your financial documents, work files, emails, contacts, photos, iTunes, MP3s, and other data are synchronized and backed up

Last Updated 25 May 2010
Win XP/Vista

Yadis! Backup
Easy-to-use backup-tool

Yadis! is a free and simple backup application that protects your private information within minutes. It's intuitive design will guide you through a few steps, and before you know it, your personal data is brought in safety.

When you use a backup-tool, it's often a hard job to learn to know all of the features. And when you've finally managed to understand every possibility of that tool, you realize it's not just that what you wanted.

That's why we've created Yadis! Backup. Take a look around and discover all of it's advantages...

It's FREE
It's small
It's easy to use
You can fully decide what to backup
It copies one on one your files to allmost any destination you want
You don't need Yadis! Backup to access the backed-up files
The marked folders are backed-up real-time (no scheduling needed!). You make a change? Yadis! Backup makes a backup
When your backup destination isn't available, Yadis! remembers the changes you have made. Whenever the location becomes available Yadis! starts backing up the changes.

Last Updated 06 May 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

AxCrypt
Backup to an internet document sharing service

AxCrypt is used to share and work with stored documents, and e-mail attachments, in a secure manner.

If your documents reside on a document sharing service, intranet or file server AxCrypt is especially well suited and will usually seamlessly integrate, and make sharing and storing sensitive data as easy as not protecting it.

AxCrypt is great for protecting your documents such as private letters, correspondence, job information, medical information, financial details stored on a local hard disk or network server.

Just right-click any document file and encrypt it with AxCrypt. Viewing and opening for update is just as convenient as before encryption due to AxCrypt's automatic decryption/open/re-encryption function.

If you use a Key-File on a diskette or USB thumb drive, your files will be encrypted to the highest level of protection as long the Key-File is kept secret.

To encrypt a file, right-click it in Windows Explorer, select 'AxCrypt > Encrypt' and enter a pass phrase plus the path to an optional strong key file.

To edit or view an encrypted file - just double-click it

Last Updated 22 April 2010
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

Cobian Backup 10
Backup tool

Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload).

Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a "Scheduler for security copies".

Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.

Last Updated 08 April 2010
Win XP/2003/Vista/7

Microsoft SyncToy
Copy files faster and more secure

There are files from all kinds of sources that we want to store and manage. Files are created by our digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and laptops. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different computers (such as a laptop and a desktop) to store, manage, retrieve and view files.

Yet managing hundreds or thousands of files is still largely a manual operation. In some cases it is necessary to regularly get copies of files from another location to add to primary location; in other cases there is a need to keep two storage locations exactly in sync. Some users manage files manually, dragging and dropping from one place to another and keeping track of whether the locations are synchronized in their heads. Other users may use two or more applications to provide this functionality.

Now there is an easier way. SyncToy, a free PowerToy for Microsoft Windows, is an easy to use, highly customizable program that helps users to do the heavy lifting involved with the copying, moving, and synchronization of different directories. Most common operations can be performed with just a few clicks of the mouse, and additional customization is available without additional complexity.

SyncToy can manage multiple sets of folders at the same time; it can combine files from two folders in one case, and mimic renames and deletes in another case. Unlike other applications, SyncToy actually keeps track of renames to files and will make sure those changes get carried over to the synchronized folder.

System Requirements:
Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0
Win XP/Vista/7

TeraCopy
Copy files faster and more secure

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.

Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.

Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.

Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.

Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.

Full Unicode support.

Windows 7 x64 support

Win NT/2000/XP

Comodo Time Machine
Quickly restore your computer to an earlier point in time

Why use Comodo Time Machine (CTM)?

Comodo Time Machine (CTM) is a powerful system rollback utility that allows users to quickly restore their computers to an earlier point in time. CTM 'snapshots' are a complete record of your entire system (including the registry, critical operating system files and user created documents).

Layered Security
Schedule automatic snapshots to be taken at regular intervals
Roll back to the last known working state in the event of virus attacks or crashes
Take snapshots of your computer before large installations or system maintenance

Software Developers and testers can easily restore test systems to the default configuration after each deployment without the need to manually uninstall each application. Home users can even let the kids run amok on the family PC for an afternoon and be safe in the knowledge that any damage can be instantly undone and all files recovered.

Comodo Time Machine features an intuitive, friendly interface which offers quick and easy access to all functionality in the application. Additionally, it also features a sub-console that can be accessed before Windows starts and a Quick Operation console containing shortcuts to important and commonly executed tasks.

Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/7

CrashPlan
Back up your computer to local hard drives and other computers

CrashPlan is FREE for personal use and automatically backs up your computers daily. You can back up to your own drives and other computers for free.

CrashPlan works equally well on PCs, Macs, Linux and Solaris. This means you can use CrashPlan on any computer you have.

Only CrashPlan lets you back up PC to Mac, Mac to PC, Mac to Linux or any combination.

Multiple Backup Destinations

Backing up to multiple destinations ensures your files are protected in any situation. With CrashPlan you can back up to:
Any internal or external hard drive
A friend's computer or another computer you own
CrashPlan Central, our online backup service with unlimited storage
Smarter, Faster Backup and Restore

CrashPlan is smart. It reduces file size by using advanced compression technology. It identifies duplicate files and parts of files and stores them only once. When files change, only the new information is backed up.

But that's just half of the story.

Once your files are backed up, CrashPlan continuously checks that your files are 100% healthy and ready to restore when you need them. If it finds any problems, CrashPlan fixes them.

Always Secure

CrashPlan uses industrial grade private key encryption to secure your files before they're backed up. The only person who can decrypt your files is you.

If you need even stronger encryption, check out CrashPlan+.

Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7
Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6
Linux! 2.6 Series Kernel

Handy Backup Free
Backup your hard drive

Handy Backup is an easy-to-use backup program, with user-friendly interface designed for automatic backup and synchronizing of critical data.
Handy Backup copies, saves and restores your files, accidentally lost through system errors, hardware failures, viruses, laptop theft etc.

Automatic backup scheduler
Backup to HDD
Backup to Zip, floppy, USB
Online backup
Synchronizing files and folders between servers, desktops, notebooks, LANs, secondary hard disks, USB disk, floppy disk, ZIP disks.
Automatic searching and coping files:
ICQ
MS Outlook, Outlook Express
My Documents folders
Windows registry

Win NT/2000/XP

EASEUS Todo Backup
Backup software providing system backup & restore

Are your system, photos, music and financial data protected? EASEUS Todo Backup is potent FREE backup software providing system backup & restore, hard disk or partition backup & restore, disk clone to protect your system and disk. It can back up whole PC, including the operating system plus your data, applications, settings and everything!

If your system is crashed or Linux based bootable CD fails to restore the system, we recommend you to restore system with WinPE based bootable CD which is more powerful than Linux one: operate without installation, support Windows 7 and Hardware Raid, etc.

Meanwhile, EASEUS Todo Backup is useful if you want to replace the older smaller hard disk by a newer larger hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.

Features
Backup and Restore System/Data: Backup system, partition or disk to an image and restore it safely and quickly.
Clone Disk: Migrate all data (including system) to another disk.
Check Image File: Check images to ensure restoration.
Mount backup image files as virtual drives and Unmount it if needed.

Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

JaBack
Automated Data Backup Software

JaBack is backup software with advanced automation features. The backup file is in standard zip format which allows you to restore data using any zip utility.
After backup, You can ftp or email the backup file.
Synchronize, copy, and zip tasks are also included to satisfy all your backup and archiving needs.

Schedule tasks by the second or minute, or on a hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
In addition, the chaining feature can run tasks in sequence or conditionally depending on exit codes.

It supports dynamic variables to achieve advanced automated tasks. Schedules can be synchronized to allow or prevent overlapping schedules.

Last Updated 10 October 2008
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Mac-Requires OS X 10.2 or later - Download 4.4 MB

Comodo BackUp 2
Automatic file backup and recovery for Windows

Losing your valuable files through accidental deletion, hard drive crashes or virus attacks can be devastating. Whether it's the priceless collection of family photographs; the college thesis you've been saving over or the entire accounts database - data loss always carries a disastrously high cost in time, money and stress.

Of course, making regular backup copies of your files is a good idea - you'd do it if you knew where to begin, right? What if we told you there's a free, simple to use program that allows you to create, schedule and run your own backups 5 minutes after you've downloaded it? Just pick your source and destination folders, pick the times you want it to run and you're set. From now on, if your data gets lost, damaged or deleted you can quickly recover it at the touch of a button.

Comodo BackUp is suitable for both beginners and experienced users alike and is completely free of charge. Features of free Backup Software include complete file and folder duplication to local / network drives, FTP servers and CD/DVD re-writers; intelligent incremental backups; e-mail reporting; extensive report logs; real time back ups with 'synchronization' mode; advanced rule-based filtering; flexible scheduling of backups; space-saving archiving capabilities and more

* Easily backup files or folders anywhere on your computer, network, DVD-RW, CD-RW or FTP server

* Files can be written to a multi-session DVD if it already contains a file with the same name

* Email, FTP, zip and configuration passwords are stored in the registry with encryption

* Protect yourself against ever losing those critical files that took hours to create

* Quickly recover your data in the event of data loss

* Schedule backups to run automatically at a time that suits you

* Synchronized backup feature - save a file and it gets copied instantly

*Send E-mail notifications to team members about the status of a backup job

* Save Disk space by compressing your backups as ZIP files

* Configure in minutes with our intuitive interfac

Last Updated 21 September 2009
Win XP/Vista/7

FBackup
Protects your important data by backing it up automatically

FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files.

FBackup has a simple interface and guides you through the process of defining a backup job using a friendly wizard that asks you:

Where do you want to store the backup (the destination).
What do you want to backup (the sources).
How do you want to run the backup (using full backup that zips the files, or mirror backup that doesn't zip them).
When do you want to run the backup (you can schedule it to run autmatically or run it manually)

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

GFI Backup 2009
Assisting home PC users to back up their files

To assist home PC users in these troubled economic times and to help them understand the importance of data backups, GFI Software is offering for free its newly-developed backup and recovery software GFI Backup 2009.

GFI Backup 2009 will allow all home PC users to keep regular and updated copies of their precious memories in the form of pictures, video, and other files and safeguard their data in case something goes wrong.

Loss of data for individuals can be heartbreaking as memories, personal documents and important files are lost due to hard disk failure or a virus attack. With this free software, we are assisting people to be better prepared, especially when they are trying to cut costs wherever possible.

GFI Backup 2009 is an easy-to-use backup and recovery software solution that allows users to backup all their important files and, whenneeded, recover the data within minutes using the product’s wizard-driven interface. GFI Backup 2009 does not use a proprietary format; all data is saved to common ZIP files. This makes it easy to restore data to a computer that may not have GFI Backup installed on it.

Data can be stored on virtually any storage device available such as internal or external hard disks, on local area network (LAN) locations, CD/DVD media, removable media devices (USB sticks, memory sticks, flash memory, floppy disks, ZIP disks, JAZ, etc.) and remote locations using FTP with upload auto-resume. Data can also be protected with military-strength 256-bit AES strong encryption.

Last Updated 21 September 2009
Win 2000/NT/XP/Vista

Acubix PicoBackup for Outlook Express
Backup your emails

Acubix PicoBackup for Outlook Express enables you to backup all your Outlook Express email folders and settings.

The program can perform the backups as needed, or automatically on a regular schedule

It supports full and incremental backups, as well as optional 256-bit encryption and zip compression.

The backups can be stored to local or removable drives, remote FTP account or burned to CD or DVD.

Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP

Simple Data Backup
Backup tool

Simple Data Backup is a FREE, easy program to back up folders/files from one drive to another and have these folders/files automatically backed up on a regular basis. It can back up to a 2nd hard drive, network drive, flash drive, and even a CD/DVD if packet-writing software is installed.

It can create identical folder/file structures on the backup device or can compress the data as a .ZIP or .7z file (LZMA compression). It can back up "in use" files (as long as you meet certain criteria), and it automatically handles the whole full/incremental backup thing that other programs make you deal with.

Simple Data Backup is indeed simple - just pick the folders you want to be backed up and a few settings and you're done!

Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Dropbox
Backup, synchronise & share important files

Dropbox works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences.

Here's how it works:
Drag and drop to move files around, just like you normally would
Any files or folders inside Dropbox will get synchronized to Dropbox's servers and any other computer linked to your account.
Green checkmarks will appear on top of your files to let you know that they're synced and up to date.

Your files are always safe. All data is transferred over SSL and encrypted with AES-256 before storage.

Dropbox keeps track of every change made to any of its contents. Any changes are instantly and automatically sent to any other computer linked to your Dropbox. The Dropbox clients for Windows, Mac and Linux all play nice with one another too!

Dropbox is also smart with how it tracks changes to files. Every time you make a change, Dropbox only transfers the piece of the file that changed (also known as block-level or delta sync), making it easy to work with big files like Photoshop or Powerpoint documents.

Access from anywhere
Not at any of your computers and want to grab one of your files? Just hop onto Dropbox's web interface for access to your files from anywhere in the world.

Share your files
Dropbox's shared folders make it easy for you to share a bunch of stuff with other people. This makes Dropbox perfect for team projects, music/video editing, and much more.
Any member of a shared folder can add, edit and delete the contents within.
Collaborators of your shared folder won't have access to any of your files outside of that folder.
Changes made to a shared folder are instantly sent to every member of that folder.

Need to share some files with non-Dropbox users? Just drop files into your Public folder. Any files in here will be given a link that you can send to others in e-mails, IMs, blogs, etc. without requiring people to sign up for Dropbox.

Show your photos
Want to share your pictures with friends and family? Just create a folder within the Photos folder and drop your pictures inside. These folders will be viewable in a gallery on our web interface.

Galleries in your Photos folder also have a unique web address that you can share with others (non-Dropbox users too!) through e-mail, instant messaging, or blogs.

Last Updated 24 August 2009
Win XP/Vista
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Linux

EZBack-it-up
Backup tool

EZBack-it-up is a personal file backup utility. It is designed to be very easy to learn and use.

It is not an archival tool that compresses all your files and folders into one file, but instead, it copies your data to a destination of your choice where you can readily access your backed up files any time you need.

All directory structure is preserved and you can optionally choose to delete files from the target that are not in the source. EZBack-it-up includes a built-in scheduler, command-line switches, logging functionality, and more.

Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Syncplicity
Backup, synchronise & share your files

As PCs are becoming so cheap, instead of replacing an ageing machine, it’s now easier to buy a laptop you can use on the move or get a home PC for the living room. Either way, the problem is that you might want the same data across every computer. That might include your fonts, desktop images and your work data.

Traditionally we’ll have used a desktop backup tool to backup your files and restore them to another machine. However, this doesn’t always work too well and a wiser choice would be to back up your data to a remote server (or website), login with another computer, select the files you want on your machine and then download to the other PC. The other alternative is to synchronise your files across various computers so you’ll automatically have the files you want across every machine, without having to run a scheduled backup.

Syncplicity attempts to be such a tool. At the moment it is Windows only, although a Mac version will be available later this year. You can use this tool to either backup, store and restore your data to/from the Syncplicity website or, to synchronise the data across your PCs, as long as they are using XP or Vista. If you’re away from your regular machine, you can use Syncplicity to access your remote files you’ve backed up to your online account.

Best of all, you can use Syncplicity to share and synchronise files with other users. Simply right-click on the folders you want to share and insert the information of the user(s) that you want to access the folder and contents. This might be useful for sharing project documentation between different developers, located in various locations through the world.

Note that you'll need to open a Syncplicity account, before you install the software. You get 2GB/year which will sync up to 2 computers, for free.

Note:
FREE Subscription: Start with 2GB and 2 computers for FREE

Last Updated 10 October 2008
Win XP/Vista