Backup or Share Data
Super Flexible File Synchronizer is also a solution for backing up data and sharing data - even over the Internet. Currently, this requires a medium accessible as a drive letter or network path, or an Internet server.
Separate Documentation
You can use
online storage for your backup and access it using FTP, SSH, WebDAV or Amazon S3.
You can make the appropriate settings using the Internet
button (world icon).
There are
separate documentation pages for the following topics:
Sharing data using a central reference storage
If you want to synchronize shared data using a central reloading point, you can simply run the synchronizing software independently on each machine. Please read this page completely in order to be able to configure all the settings correctly. For some options, it is required that the backup medium (or the central reloading point for shared data) is on the right side of the synchronization, and the local hard disk is the left side.
Direct Access To Medium
If you have direct access to the location where you want to back up your data, (or the location that you want to use as a central reloading point for the shared data), then you can simply use a normal file synchronization in order to update your files and/or the backup location/reloading point.
FTP as Backup Medium or Reloading Point
If you want to use an FTP server for backup or as the central reloading point for shared data, please use the new "file name mangling" option which stores the timestamp as part of the file name (see last green box below).
ZIP Compression
To speed up file transfer, you can activate ZIP compression on the right side of the synchronization.
You can do this on the ZIP tab sheet among the profile-specific settings. Files copied from left to right are compressed, whereas files copied from right to left are unzipped. The filename on the right side becomes longer: the unzipped size it put into the filename, as well as the extension .zip.
Data Encryption
Especially for FTP servers, you may want to secure your data by encrypting it. This feature is also found on the ZIP tab sheet. For optimum encryption, the password phrase should be about 32 characters long. Files copied from left to right are encrypted, whereas files copied from right to left are decrypted. Encrypted files are given an additional file extension (.1crypt or .2crypt, depending on the chosen encryption method).