With SyncToy it was taking twelve hours to finish my nightly backup. I used SyncToy for many years, but after I accumulated several terabytes of data, it was getting too slow. The ease in creating a batch file and the ability to easily edit it in FreeFileSync if target or source destinations change saves a lot of time compared to trying to create an adhoc solution such as using Windows command line/batch files.Several years ago I wrote this post about my daily backup process. To help with the two way requirement and prevent conflicts I have used the create batch functionality in FreeFileSync, and use external triggers like Windows Tasks to run this batch automatically at regular intervals. This two way sync is helpful as I can add business data to my PC or the NAS directly and know that once FreeFileSync is run the data on both devices will be the same. An exception to this is that on the NAS and PC there are some business folders which require a two way sync. First, it archives the majority of a network attached storage device to a large disk installed in a PC once per week. You only need to specify the target and source directories, and the sync option that you require (such as mirroring or two-way sync). I've had a great experience with this program so far.įreeFileSync is an easy, free way to keep your data up-to-date in multiple locations. I use FreeFileSync to solve all the problems mentioned above. The problem with the RAID configuration is that it would make your computer environment a little complicated and you won't have the option of synchronizing select folders. Partition_1 for OneDrive and Partition_2 for Dropbox). How do you synchronize folders of two or more cloud storage solutions in real time? I don't know of any cloud storage giving you that option and a RAID configuration is possible, I suppose, if you give each cloud storage a partition (i.e. How do you efficiently determine which files are new compared to the last data dump that you kept? You could manually compare file times between your files and the files of the new data dump, but you can lose a lot of time doing so. Suppose that you regularly receive a data dump via an FTP. How do you make external hard drive backups efficiently? The external hard drive naturally exists outside of a RAID configuration and a cloud storage sync folder and it could be very difficult and time-consuming to do the backup manually. RAID configurations and cloud storage solutions have their place, but they cannot solve many of the problems that this program can. For those who do not know what FreeFileSync can do for you, let me sum it up for you: it's a program that allows the user to manages folder synchronization jobs.
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