Allway Sync Software Review
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4. Allway Sync Software Review
Allway Sync
7.0.1
Allway Sync is very similar to GoodSync in its arrow approach with a left and a right side to synchronize. It adds a little more complexity and depth at the top of the scrollable screen, showing different views including: new files, changed files, unchanged files and all files. The basic arrow indicators also provide a clear visual representation of what needs to go which way to sync.
Allway Sync : Main synchronization interface
Synchronization scheduling for Allway Sync is also very powerful with options for syncing periodically (much like GoodSync provides).
Allway Sync : Scheduling
Allway Sync goes beyond what GoodSync (and others) do by dealing with file versioning. Instead of simply having an option to propagate deletions or not, Allway Sync gives you choices for what to do with those older files. Hey, you never know when you may need an older version and the ability to have granular control over those older versions may be a really key feature in certain situations.
Allway Sync: file version policy
Allway Sync also allows users to perform multi-way synchronizations with more than one target. So you could synchronize data within a PC, a local storage drive and a USB thumb drive at the same time.
Allway Sync: Three-way sync
Allway Sync has a free version that is limited to synchronize no more than 20,000 files in a 30-day period. A Pro version of Allway Sync with no limitations is available for $19.95.
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Dsynchronize by domio is free and can handle all sorts of syncing scenarios without the fruity looking interfaces.
Dsynchronize by domio is free and can handle all sorts of syncing scenarios without the fruity looking interfaces.
Dsynchronize by domio is free and can handle all sorts of syncing scenarios without the fruity looking interfaces.
www.powerfolder.com
you forget to mention that one
No SuperFlexible File Synchronizer? Too complicated for you?
Foldershare has been in beta for years - I think it's abandonware (though I use it and love it)
You seem to have forgotten the tried and proven robocopy from the Windows Server 2003 resource kit. It runs in a simple batch file, which can be generated by robocopygui. It's ugly but works extremely well, can be scheduled using Task Scheduler, can sync changes in both directions, and is a favorite business solution that works just as well for me at home, even in Vista x64.
i like unison
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
freeware, open source, and works cross platform and remotely.
allows remote SSH sync, too. pretty simple, no automated options, though. pick one dir, then another (local or remote) to sync it to...and it does the hard part. asks about files it is not sure about.
peace.
maybe not open source. there is a link to the source code...but it is broken. well, free, anyway. ;-p
Hey ! Where is MirrorFolder? you missed the best !
You definitively forgot PowerFolder!!! (http://www.powerfolder.com)
You definitively forgot PowerFolder !!!
www.powerfolder.com
mmhh nice list a little bit late for me
. i finally came to PowerFolder. I think its better and i can run my smaller clients
What about Windows Offline Folders and My Briefcase?
I was surprised you left out Microsoft Groove. In addition to being an amazingly easy to use sync program, it also has wonderful team collaboration features built in. I can drag a file in to groove and auto-sync with an unlimited number of computers across the interet, lan, or even wireless ad-hoc.
When I worked overseas, we used Groove to handle a 4 man project team's collaboration efforts. Whenever one of us updated a directory on our computer that was setup as a shared directory, the other users were updated automatically. Wonderfully easy to use.
Allway Sync is rather buggy and has several times during sync deleted all files on both shares.
Capivara works very well for me!
www.capivara.org
Vice Versa is hands down the best tool. Archiving function is awesome
http://www.tgrmn.com/
imho, by far the best sync software is vice versa 2 pro (not tested here)