Super Flexible File Synchronizer

I recently bought a 500GB Western Digital My Book Essential Edition external hard disk and connected it to my also recently bought WL500GPv2 Asus router. I am using the external disk to back up important data from my laptop and as a streaming source for media files. Instead of manually doing all the backup myself every day I searched for an app that could do that safely in the background while I am working. So now, every hour a scheduled synchronization takes place between some directories that are on my laptop’s HDD and some directories on the external HDD.

Super Flexible File Synchronizer is by far the best solution out there. It has all the vital features included plus a whole bunch of extra ones that make it the perfect glove even for those of you who are a little bit more demanding.

Since it can be used to back up your data using protocols like FTP, SSH (SFTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, HTTP you can use it both at work and at home, needing just an Internet connection. A basic example would be synchronizing your work directory with the one at home using a FTP server. In matter of restrictions… well there are no such things with SFFS. No matter the size of the files, how many they are or what name they have, SFFS will make everything seem easy.

For the ones who don’t want to complicate themselves so much, a friendly Wizard is available to help them create the perfect profile. A profile is more like a task or a job that defines what, when and where is being copied. However if you want to make sure you are 100% in control you can skip the Wizard GUI and do all the settings manually. I would strongly suggest that you at least have a brief look at all the options available especially if you handle important data, also if you want to make sure your files are secured you can choose to zip and encrypt them with the built-in algorithm.

The most important feature that basically boosts the level of professionalism is SmartTracking module. It detects every single aspect related to your files (directory structure, size, timestamp, etc.) and stores all the information in a database which will later serve at identifying even the smallest changes that occurred. An interesting feature that can be very useful is file versioning that, as you already might have imagined, allows you to keep different copies of a certain file. This is very useful because it may serve like an “Undo” option in case something goes wrong. You can specify which directories to be scanned for changes, you can apply a lot of filters for every aspect imaginable or you can simply use “mirror mode” and have an exact duplicate back up.

This is a great application that has so many things to offer. It really helped me a bunch and I strongly recommend it to everyone out there who wants to keep their data safe in two or more places. As far as portability, Super Flexible File Synchronizer can be used on Windows, Mac and Linux.