Because your user folder includes, by default, all your music, photos, and e-mail, not to mention the information included in a.Mac sync (contacts, calendars, and so on), syncing the whole thing. Create the two folders and make sure your Mac can access both of them. Go to the source folder—the one where you’ll first place a file—Control-click on it, and choose Automator from the More.
Back up your data and synchronize PCs, Macs, servers, notebooks, and online storage space.
You can set up as many different jobs as you need and run them manually or using the scheduler. Syncovery works with local hard drives, network drives and any other mounted volumes. In addition, it comes with support for FTP, SSH, HTTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, SharePoint, DropBox, Box and many other cloud storage providers. You can use ZIP compression and data encryption. The scheduler can run as a service – without users having to log on. There are powerful synchronization modes, including Standard Copying, Exact Mirror, and SmartTracking.
Syncovery features a carefully designed GUI to make it an extremely versatile synchronizing and backup tool. The wealth of features fulfills all requirements that users typically have, while still being easy to use.
A free 30-day trial version is available on the Download page.
Feature List
Here’s a list of the most important capabilities of Syncovery. To get a full impression of the available features, it is recommended to download and try the software and take a direct look at the available options.
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- Synchronizes or Backs Up Files and complete folder structures in different locations, such as PCs, Macs, laptops, or online storage. There are no limits in terms of file sizes, the number of files, or filename lengths. The program fully supports Unicode characters so that it can copy filenames in all languages.
- Each sync job is saved as a profile so that you only need to specify the settings once.
You can run multiple profiles with a single click. You can also run profiles from the command line.
Profiles can be created using a wizard, or in advanced mode. - Copy several files in parallel.
You can copy between 1 and 10 files in parallel. This can greatly speed up the copying phase. Just specify the number of simultaneous copying threads on the Files tab sheet when editing a profile in Advanced Mode. - Includes a scheduler.
Schedule the synchronization of your data on a backup hard disk at a convenient time each day, or as frequently as you wish. You can also schedule profiles to run upon shutdown or log-off. The scheduler can launch different jobs in parallel or sequentially. On Windows, the scheduler can run as a service – without users having to log on. - Internet and Cloud Support.
Supports various Internet protocols, including FTP, FTPS, SFTP/SSH, WebDAV, SSL, HTTP, as well as these cloud services: Amazon S3 and compatible services, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files, Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), Google Drive and Google Docs, DropBox, Box.com, and more. - Compression and Encryption Support.
Easily zip your files and encrypt them with strong 256-bit AES encryption. To unzip and decrypt, simply use the Restore Wizard or make a copy of your profile and copy in the opposite direction. - Detects Moved Files.
If you reorganized your folders by moving files to different locations, Syncovery will detect this and quickly perform the same moves on the other side of the sync, rather than deleting and re-copying the files. - SmartTracking.
This operating mode has been designed for two-way synchronizations. It keeps a database of all files so that it can detect file deletions and conflicts. Via the Configure button, you have access to the SmartTracking dialog where you can specify how to handle the various situations that can occur in two-way syncs. - Exact Mirror Mode.
This operating mode has been designed for one-way synchronizations. In addition to copying newer files, this mode can also delete files which are no longer present on the source side, and it can replace newer files with older ones if it is necessary to create an exact mirror. - Unattended Mode.
In this mode, no questions are asked while the profile is run. All relevant choices can be made beforehand in the profile settings. - Copy Locked Files.
If some files cannot be copied due to other software accessing these files, Volume Shadowing can be used on Windows XP or later to copy the files. If files can’t be copied, the synchronizer will continue copying the remaining files, and then retry all those files that were locked, until all files have been copied successfully. A limit for the time spent on retries can be specified. On Macintosh and Linux, locked files can also be copied because the operating system does not normally enforce locks as strongly as Windows. - Versioning:
this feature enables you to keep multiple older versions of each file in the backup. There are several naming schemes available. - Block Level Copying (or delta copying / partial file updating):
this feature copies only the changed portions of files in order to speed up the synchronization. See Block Level Copying - Database-safe mode:
this mode requires exclusive access to the files to be copied. If exclusive access is not possible, Volume Shadowing is used, or the program will wait until the exclusive access becomes possible. - Can Use Recycle Bin
for older versions of files that are overwritten, as well as for deleted files. This will give you a chance of retrieving overwritten or deleted files. By default, the recycle bin is used for deletions but not for updated files. These settings can be changed in the profiles. - File Masks & Filters.
Numerous ways to select/deselect files and folders are available. - Daylight Saving Time / Time Zones.
Due to consistent internal use of UTC/World Time, there are rarely any issues with timezone differences. However, if you find that your files have a timestamp mismatch such as 1 hour, the program can be set to ignore that and consider these files as identical – provided that the file size is the same, and the difference is exactly 1 hour (or an exact hour difference below the maximum number of hours allowed). - Easy Resuming On Disk Full.
You simply make more space and ask the software to continue copying. It can pause right in the middle of a file until additional space is freed. - Obsolete File Folders.
If you occasionally move obsolete files to a specially designated folder, this usually causes trouble with traditional file synchronizers. They will copy the obsolete files back from your other machine right into the folders where you moved them out of. No longer! If you use the Selected Folders option, you can specify folders for obsolete files using the right mouse button. These folders are then taken into account for moving files into them, but not for copying files out. Thus, the synchronizer does the same moving of obsolete files on your one machine that you previously did on the other, but it does not waste any time copying all obsolete files between the two machines.
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If you want to be able to restore a new device to look like your current device, you would want to do that from a backup.
You can back up to iCloud or to iTunes. The backups created in those two places are a bit different. If you are a belt and suspenders person, you can back up to both places (I do). Here is a support article that explains the difference in what is backed up. Anytoiso pro 3 9 5 qt. Note that in iTunes, a backup will always have the same content, whereas in an iCloud backup, you control what is actually backed up by selecting what items you want backed up in Settings>iCloud>Storage>Manage Storage, then you click on your device, and once you are viewing the specific device 'Manage Storage' screen, you will see the items that can be backed up listed. To add or remove items from the backup, turn them on or off:
When you sync a device, what you are doing is connecting that device to your iTunes Libraries. Based on what options you set up for the sync, those items selected will replace whatever is on your device with what you have selected in the Device Profile screens. For example, when you hook up your device to iTunes and click on that device, you will see a sidebar with the various Device Profile screens that you can set up: Summary, Info, Apps, Music, Photos, etc. As you select each of those options, a window will display to the right of the sidebar with the various sync selections for that particular option. So, on the Music Profile screen, you have the option to 'Sync All Music' or to 'Sync Selected Albums, Songs, Playlists, & Artists'. If you select the second option, you then will see the various categories of Albums, Songs, Playlists, & Artists with little checkboxes in front of each item. You can then selectively check the specific ones you want on your device. Once you have set up all of your Device Profile screens to your liking, you then click on Apply or Sync, and whatever you have selected to sync will sync to your device, overlaying whatever was there before with the new items you have selected to sync to it. Quarkxpress 2017 13 2 1. Here is a support article with more detail about syncing using iTunes 12 on a Mac and one for Windows:
So, you would use a backup to create an image of your device at a given point in time for the purpose of using that image to set up a new phone to if ever needed.
You would sync your device to get photo albums, playlists, songs that are ripped from a CD, etc. to your device that can only come from your iTunes Library.
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You sync to get the stuff you cannot download (like apps or new music) to your device so it is set up the way you want it set up.
You back up your device to preserve the image of that device once you have it set up to your liking. You continue to back up regularly because that image changes on a daily basis with new messages, photos, etc.
I would recommend that if you have Wifi, you set up automatic iCloud backups. With automatic iCloud backups, your device will back up to iCloud any time it is plugged into a power source, is on the Slide to Unlock screen, and is connected to Wifi. When I got my new iPhone, I used the iCloud backup from my old iPhone to set it up. It looked exactly like my old iPhone once the set up was complete.
The final piece in all of this is iCloud syncing. If you have an iCloud account, and you have turned on Contacts, Calendar, Notes, etc. (the items listed when you go to Settings>iCloud), those things are all stored in your iCloud account. For those items, neither a backup nor a sync will restore them. What restores those to your device is the simple act of signing back into that iCloud account with the same iCloud ID and turning on those options. They will automatically push back to your device once you are signed on and on a Wifi connection.
Also, if you have turned on iCloud Drive, that will store and sync documents via iCloud, and if you turn on iCloud Photo Library, that will store and sync your photos via iCloud. They work in the same way that the iCloud pieces above work. Once you are signed into the iCloud account and those options are turned on, iCloud will push the data to your device.