

This new design offers huge performance improvements for all scenarios that are dominated by latency, like synchronization against network shares or cloud devices including SFTP and FTP(S). During synchronization FreeFileSync will then spawn several tasks accordingly instead of processing only one file after another. It is now possible to specify the number of parallel file operations for each device inside the settings. All in all, it's an excellent choice for home users and small businesses.FreeFileSync version 10 has added support for copying It's hard not to like that SyncBack doesn't use many system resources when working in the background, and backups can be set to export their logs to an HTML file for easy viewing.

You can control the way files are compared and selected for backup: the program comes with ready-made profiles to make the process as easy as possible. It lets you define multiple scheduled backup jobs so you can just set 'em and forget 'em, allowing users to create specific backup jobs for certain folders or file types.

Recovering from a drive loss is also cinch, with a convenient restore tool that replicates folder trees along with the files in them. Surprisingly flexible for a free program, SyncBack can save your files anywhere: on external hard drives, in ZIP archives, on network drives, on CDs (using UDF), or transfer them via FTP. This straightforward backup utility makes it a snap to safeguard and synchronize your files, and its freeware price just sweetens the deal.
