File synchronization software comes in many shapes and forms. Bvckup 2Bvckup opens a clean interface on launch., First thing you do is create a new backup profile under File and configure it.There you select the source and destination folders as well as all parameters for the job.

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1. Directory Sync Tool

You will notice that you can only configure one-way sync operations using the program.What sticks out on the other hand is support for delta-copying files which reduces the time it takes to update already synced files by transferring only the parts that have been modified.The program can monitor the source directory in real-time, using specific intervals or manually. The preferences hold additional options of interest. It is for instance possible to link backup jobs to removable devices so that they are only run when the device is connected to the system.The progress is highlighted in steps when a job runs. It highlights the current operation and the remaining steps and errors so far. A detailed log file is available as well which you can enable under options. Create SynchronicityCreate Synchronicity is an easy to configure file backup and synchronization software. Compared to other syncing programs it is rather bare-bones which does not have to be a bad thing depending on your needs.It does support one-way and two-way syncing though and a couple of additional features that you configure during setup of a new sync job.It supports a preview option that displays exactly what will happen when you run the synchronization job.

There is however no option to make last minute adjustments to the job which means that you will have to open the configuration of the job again to do that.The sync dialog displays all there is to know about the process including the elapsed time, progress bars, the speed of the process and how many files and folders were created and deleted so far and how many are left. FreeFileSyncAttention: The program ships with adware. Mystartsearch was offered during test installations and the only option to skip it was to switch from Basic (Recommended) to Advanced and remove the checkmark from the Install Mystartsearch box there before clicking Next.FreeFileSync's interface leaves you puzzled for a moment where to begin. It is not really that complicated but a little bit of guidance would help out a lot.What you need to do is add folder pairs that you want to sync using the browse buttons. Once you have added at lest one pair, you use the compare, filter or synchronize button to start a process.Both compare and synchronize are configured with a click on the cog wheel button next to their buttons. Compare for instance compares all files in both folders based on their size and file time. Synchronize on the other hand displays the sync methods supported by the program as well as other sync related preferences that you can configure there.Please note that you need to run the program with elevated privileges as you may get access errors otherwise depending on the folders and files you select.Compare loads all files and folders and displays them in the interface.

Directory Sync Tool

FreeFileSync higlights which files are only listed in one of the two directories and displays the total size and file count of the operation if executed.Scheduling is not built-in but you can export a job as a batch file and add it to the Windows Task Scheduler manually to run it regularly on the system. SyncBackFreeSetting up a sync job is a two-step process in SyncBackFree. You create a new profile and the desired synchronization method in the first step.Once done, you configure the new sync profile in detail in the second step. A simple version of the configuration is displayed to you by default.

You can change that to an expert configuration if you prefer that which displays all available options (and some not available in the free version).The expert options leave little to be desired. At the very least, it is necessary to add two folders to the profile but you can do a lot more than that.For instance, it is possible to define detailed compare options that determine whether files are equal or not based no parameters that you can adjust in the settings.Next to that, it is the only program supporting compression and encryption of files, and ftp servers. Another interesting and unique feature it offers is a performance estimation for the profile highlighting settings that may slow down the profile. SyncFoldersThe program is probably the easiest to set up thanks to its streamlined interface. One you click the new button you are taken to the configuration screen where you configure all sync related options.Before you run a sync operation, you may want to run a scan first as it provides information about the job.

It lists files and folders to synchronize, the total size of the data and errors that it ran into.A click on errors reveals those while details lists all files and folders and their status in regards to the other folder. A right-click on folders or files displays options to override the default rules in place.

You can block files from being synchronized or copied for instance. SynchredibleWhen you first start Synchredible after installation you are taken directly to the task wizard which you can use to create a first sync job.Adding a new sync job is not complicated and every option that you can select is well explained. It takes seven steps (pages) to set up your first sync job which can be a bit overwhelming if you never used a sync software before.The wizard covers all necessary information on the other hand giving you full control over the process. Here is a quick rundown of the steps:.

Select the two folders and decide whether subfolders should be included. Enable one-way or two-way sync, and decide if you want to synchronize all files or only newer files. Add more parameters such as deleting redundant files, ignoring hidden files or folders, or comparing file contents. Set up filters to include or exclude files or folders from the operation.

Set up automatic tasks. Schedule synchronization jobs or configure them to run based on certain conditions or system events. Add actions that you want run before or after synchronization. Add a name, assign a system wide hotkey for the task, and enable the preview feature.Jobs can be run manually at any time or only manually if you want that.Another interesting feature is the program's group option. You can add multiple jobs to a group to run all jobs of that group in one operation.Before you run the first job you may want to check the program's options first as they list quite a few sync related preferences.Verification is enabled for instance by default while the saving of reports is not. You can also mail reports, suppress error messages during jobs, change the buffer size or disable log file creation.Sync jobs that run show the progress of the operation in the interface.

There is also an option to pause the job. SynkronSynkron supports folder synchronizations and multi-syncs. FreeFileSync comes bundled with RealTimeSync. For real-time syncing, what you do is set up a sync job in FreeFileSync, save it as a FreeFileSync batch file, and create a shortcut to RealTimeSync with an argument that targets the FreeFileSync batch file. (The help instructions explain how to do this pretty clearly.) You can then put the customized RealTimeSync shortcut in your Startup folder. Once it is running, RealTimeSync monitors the folders referenced in the batch file for changes and, when a change is detected, it runs FreeFileSync in background.When RealTimeSync first starts, it has to enumerate files on the remote computer(s). Once that’s done, file-syncing is reasonably prompt.

On a hardwired Ethernet network, changes to a file on one computer usually show up on the other within a couple of minutes. On a WiFi network — one using the older G standard, at least — all FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync operations can take much, much longer. With one pair of computers I’m using FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync on, I circumvented that problem by making a direct Ethernet connection between the two computers. (Because at least one of them has a gigabit Ethernet port, I didn’t even have to get a special crossover cable.)If the same file changes on both sides since the last sync — e.g., you open, edit, and save the same file or download the same file to the same place on both computers nearly simultaneously, or while RealTimeSync isn’t running — a conflict is detected and FreeFileSync will not sync that file. Conflicts are flagged in FreeFileSync’s logs, and I think you can probably configure error pop-ups for them as well. Resolving conflicts is easy.

You run the batch file in FreeFileSync manually and click the Compare button. All the as-yet-unsynced files are listed, and the conflicted ones are flagged with a lighting-bolt icon. You indicate which direction to sync the conflicted files in by changing the lighting bolt to a right or left arrow and then you click Synchronize.Finally, you can set up your FreeFileSync batch job to back up any file deleted or changed by a sync operation, with or without versioning. And it’s smart enough to recognize the difference between moved files, renamed files, and deleted files.I’ve been using FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync on a couple of small home networks for around nine months now, and while there was a learning curve in setting it up, I’m extremely happy with the results. It’s satisfying to check in on the networks from time to time and find that everything is working flawlessly, with (mostly) zero conflicts and errors.

The bundled adware business is distasteful — they seem to be alternating between OpenCandy and whatever Martin mentioned in the article — but if you get tricked into installing it (they got me once, on an update), Malwarebytes Anti-Malware free can probably take it out. @ Mike Cabolet:FreeFileSync actually is free donation-ware. If you don’t donate, you get installers with bundleware that you can opt out of.

If you donate, you get clean installers. It’s actively maintained and developed and updates seem to come out every three or four months or so.I’ve been using FreeFileSync for a couple of years now, on my own computer, on my dad’s small home network, and on a friend’s small home network. While it worked pretty well from the start — with a single FreeFileSync batch file and a single RealTimeSync task to trigger it — there were regularly conflicts that needed to be resolved manually, and the backup files generated by a sync weren’t guaranteed to themselves get synced before, e.g., a laptop was disconnected from the network and taken somewhere else. It took me a little thinking and trial-and-error to learn to break up the syncing work into multiple FreeFileSync batch jobs triggered by multiple concurrent RealTimeSync tasks,. to fine-tune the triggering delay for each RealTimeSync task, and to fine-tune the exclusion filters.

Now that I have, I rarely find any unresolved conflicts or “missing files.” My dad and my friend don’t do any manual sync maintenance on their own and it’s probably been six months since I’ve seen any sync problems on their networks. As for my own computer, I’ve had maybe one conflict in that time. It was a huge, very slow Internet download that didn’t download into an exclusion-filtered temporary file. The file synced halfway through the download, and when it tried to sync again after completion, it threw a conflict and I got a popup.

It took me a minute to resolve, by running FreeFileSync manually and telling it to overwrite the half-completed file with the completed file. I can live with that a couple of times a year. If you decide to maintain backups of the files you overwrite or delete via FreeFileSync (and you’d be either crazy or very short on drive space not to), at a minimum you should have two FreeFileSync batch jobs: the first for the files you want to sync, and the second for the backup files generated by the first job. I’ve reached the point where I have separate batch jobs for (1) “regular” data, (2) “big” (slow to save, download, or copy) data, (3) configuration files, and (4) backups. Actually, I have two sets of these, one for “All Users” files, and one for my personal files. Shortcuts to the RealTimeSync tasks for the “All Users” jobs are in the All Users Startup folder; shorcuts for the RealTimeSync tasks for my personal account’s jobs are in my personal Startup folder. The smaller jobs run and complete much faster than one massive job does and they can run concurrently.

RealTimeSync has a blind spot and doesn’t see new, intervening changes to the folders it monitors while its FreeFileSync job is doing a run. The faster and shorter the run, the smaller the blind spot, and the fewer outstanding unsynced files after each run. Plus, you don’t burden the CPU with scanning every synced folder on the computer when just a single personal data file has changed; only the personal data folders get scanned. Maybe it wouldn’t make that much difference on a super-fast computer with SSDs, but on my old laptop with big, slow hard drives, the difference is very noticeable.Anyway, long story short, FreeFileSync and RealTimeSync can take some time to master and fine-tune, but once you do, it can result in blissfully thought-free, effort-free, error-free automation.

Still, don’t forget to run disk checks on your hard drives from time to time and to maintain periodic non-automatically-synced backups of all of your important stuff. Even if FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync is working perfectly, if something else takes out one or more of your synced folders, you’re going to want that backup.

(An apparent drive error took out one of my FreeFileSync Backups folders a few days ago. Luckily, I had backed everything up to an external drive the day before.

The free version’s installer usually has some kind of bundleware offer that you can manually opt out of or (if you are careless) subsequently uninstall. (Unchecky doesn’t always catch the opt-outs for you.) The bundleware usually triggers at least a PUP (potentially unwanted program) alert in most anti-virus programs. The donation version’s installer is clean.I simply whitelist my free FreeFileSync installers in the two anti-virus programs I use and pay attention when I’m running them to make sure I don’t unwittingly install something extra and unwanted. I’m not a big fan of opt-out bundleware offers, but the developer has to eat and they beat what CCleaner (in conjunction with FileHippo?) was doing for a while, which was to peremptorily install Google Chrome and make it your default browser behind your back.Long story short, it’s not a problem, just an annoyance. Whitelist the installer in your antivirus and opt out of bundleware offers during installation. And if your not already running, Unchecky, install it. It catches at least.some.

bundleware offers for you. I used to use Karen’s Replicator for quick-and-dirty backup jobs. It was easy to learn and easy to use. I seem to recall that it was pretty fast, too. However, as you say, it doesn’t do 2-way syncing, just copying in one direction and then the other (which isn’t the same thing), and it doesn’t detect moved or renamed files. More importantly, it’s a 32-bit program, so if you have a 64-bit system with pathnames or filenames that exceed 32-bit limits, Replicator won’t copy them.

I have a special place in my heart for Karen (RIP), but I’ve had to stop using Replicator since moving to 64-bit Windows. Two things:DSynchronize – which is a bit blocky and dull but I’ve used it for years without issue –Bvckup – unsupported beta, which is freeware. It does delta copying, meaning only sending over changes (much like Gadmin-rsync that you profiled back in 2012 ).

Depending upon the version of the sync solution that you are using to replicate directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Office 365 there are different commands that you will need to use.We can see a listing of the DirSync versions on the. And for AAD Sync, the version. Though this has now been superseded with another article which has.The terms Full Sync and Delta Sync are not unique to the Microsoft tools noted here. A Full Sync will do just that, synchronize all of the objects regardless if already synchronized. This will take a significant amount of time in a large tenant. A Full Sync will occur when the directory synchronization tool is first installed, as this is required to get all of the objects that are in scope of synchronization into Azure Active Directory. Once the objects are up there, only changes typically need to be sent and this is where the Delta Sync comes in.

A Delta Sync will only replicate the changes since the previous sync so it is quicker and overall more efficient.Update February 2016: Note that this post has been updated to address changes with the latest version of the Directory Synchronization tool. Please refer to the specific version that you have installed for the correct command.Update 30-5-2016: As noted on - Azure AD Connect is the best way to connect your on-premises directory with Azure AD and Office 365. You should be planning to upgrade to the current build of Azure AD Connect from Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync) or Azure AD Sync as these tools are now deprecated and will reach end of support on April 13, 2017.Update 21-4-2017: Support has now. Customers must be on Azure AD Connect 1.1.

this means that only the top method should be used. Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) February 2016 Build (1.1.105.0) OnwardsIn February 2016 build 1.1.105.0 of Azure AD Connect was released which introduced multiple new features. The scheduler is now built into the sync engine. This means that there is no longer a separate DirectorySyncClientCmd tool.To initiate a Delta Sync, open Windows PowerShell and run:Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType DeltaTo initiate a Full Sync, open Windows PowerShell and run:Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType InitialPierre added a comment indicating that if the commands are not visible, try to load up the PowerShell module:Import-Module 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft Azure AD SyncBinADSyncADSync.psd1' NOTE THAT ALL BUILDS BELOW THIS POINT ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTEDPlease see for details.

Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) December 2015 Build (1.0.9131.0) and OlderJune 2015 saw the release of Azure AD Connect which is the successor to Azure AD Sync. As of the time of writing, the latest version of AAD Connect is 1.0.8667.0.

That will change over time, so please check out theAs with AAD Sync the tool is located in:C:Program FilesMicrosoft Azure AD SyncBinTo perform a manual update, use the DirectorySyncClientCmd.exe tool. The Delta and Initial parameters specify the relevant task.The below screenshot was taken from build 1.0.9131.0 of Azure AD Connect.Azure Active Directory Sync Services (AAD Sync)In September 2014 the Microsoft Azure AD Sync tool was released.

This changed how manual sync requests are issued.To perform a manual update we now use the DirectorySyncClientCmd.exe tool. The Delta and Initial parameters are added to the command to specify the relevant task.This tool is located in:C:Program FilesMicrosoft Azure AD SyncBinThe steps to migrate from.Windows Azure Active Directory Sync - June 2014 Build 6862 OnwardsWith build 6862 the PowerShell module has moved.