1. Goodsync Enterprise
2. Goodsync

• Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open.
• GoodSync is an easy, secure, and reliable way to automatically synchronize and back up your photos, MP3s, and important files. Backing-up and/or synchronizing your critical documents is as easy as one click, and can also be scheduled using a variety of automatic options.
• GoodSync is a versatile file backup and synchronization utility.To use it, you have to register and install the desktop application. Once you set up the program, you can start creating GoodSync jobs to define the source and destination of your sync or backup.

Any GoodSync Alternative to Sync Files?

GoodSync Features

GoodSync successfully synchronized important files between folders on our computer, as well as on our USB device. To a novice, the user interface might appear a bit overwhelming; however, step-by.

GoodSync is a backup and file synchronization software, which is available for Windows PC & Server, Linux, MAC, Android, iOS. It owns two main features, File Backup (one-way sync) and File Synchronization (two-way sync). As a matter of fact, file backup is another way to sync files.

Besides, GoodSync allows you to backup or sync files to other locations, like Synology NAS, WD NAS, QNAP NAS, Misc NAS, even the Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. Or computer to computer backup or synchronization.

How to Sync Files with GoodSync in Windows 7/8/10?

After installing GoodSync, GoodSync explorer (help you to view and download/upload files between your local computer and any remote server on the internet) will also installed. Now, create a new GoodSync account to enjoy these features. If you have never used GoodSync, it will notice you to create a new GoodSync Job, then follow the steps to create a file backup:

1. Click + New Job button, enter a job name (Backup My Files), and tap a job type: Backup or Synchronize (here is Backup), press OK.

★Tips:
✍Backup type only copy files and folders from the left side folder to the right side folder.
✍Synchronize type propagate changed from the left to right and from the right to left, hidden and system files are excluded by default.

2. At the top of the window, click the file/folder icon to select the files to backup, here we choose the C drive.

3. Then choose a destination path to save these files.

Tip: It will prompt you to not store files in disk root folder, and shows you that information:

4. Click Analyze and wait for the results according to the GoodSync File tree elements to set the files up.

5. After finished analyse, Click Sync that already analyzed.

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Besides, you could install GoodSync2Go on removable drive, like USB flash drive, or portable hard drive to store list of jobs and other settings on the removable disk. And GoodSync allows you to sync specific applications like RoboForm, Outlook, Windows Mail, Quickbooks, etc. About what is GoodSync Connect, you could turn to GoodSync for help to connect your devices via GoodSync Connect to transfer file.

The backup feature allows you to back up your photos, MP3s, and important files.

Backing up and synchronizing your critical documents with GoodSync are as easy as one click. And it can also be scheduled using a variety of automatic options. Here is the main interface of GoodSync.

GoodSync Limitations

Although it offers you great feature to backup and sync files in Windows computers, there are some limitations that you should be attention to:

• GoodSync only synchronize the file and folders belongs to your own personal files and folders.

• It could not backup system files and hidden files/folders.

• There are many different icons that you should be aware of and it’s hard to remember.

• How much does GoodSync cost? For personal version, $49.95 per computer/USB/NAS; for business version, it’s up to $2995.00. Besides, you have to pay extra fee to buy more cloud storage to save files.

• Limited features. GoodSync only supports to backup and sync files/folders. You could not backup your entire hard drive, partition, etc.

Best Free GoodSync Alternative for Windows - AOMEI Backupper

Is there any free alternative to GoodSync in Windows computers? As the best free sync software - AOMEI Backupper Standard, it allows you to automatically sync files to the location you want, like local disk, external hard drive, USB flash drive, CD/DVD, NAS or network share, even the cloud, like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. It could be your best GoodSync alternative free version.

AOMEI Backupper Standard is designed for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and has an intuitive and clean interface which allows you to handle it easily. With this software, you can have a more flexible and advanced choice. You can sync as many files as you want, also you can create multiple tasks with it. This is a one-way sync solution for you to protect data.

The Basic Sync feature allows you to automatically sync files and folders. You are allowed to sync any local folders to Google Drive, OneDrive, NAS, external hard drive, etc. Just a few clicks, then you could sync files and folders as you want. First of all, please get GoodSync alternative - AOMEI Backupper Standard free download, here is the detailed steps to sync files/folders:

Step 1. Launch the software. At the main interface, click Sync ->Basic Sync.

Step 2. Click + Add Folder to choose files and folders that you want to sync.

★Tip: Rename the Task Name to distinguish from other backups (this is optional).

Step 3. Click Select a network location to add NAS as the destination path.

Step 4. To automatically sync folders to NAS, click Schedule and set the task run daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

★Tips:
✍The Event triggers, and USB plug in are premium features, please upgrade to AOMEI Backupper Professional or other advanced editions.
✍You can also click Options to tick Enable email notification, and it will notify you when task finished.

Step 5. Click Start Sync>> to sync files with the best free GoodSync alternative in Windows computer.

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Wait for a moment, it will finished quickly. And store your backup files carefully. Compared with GoodSync, AOMEI Backupper Standard is more flexible and easy to understand and operate.

Conclusion

As the best free GoodSync alternative software - AOMEI Backupper is more than a file synchronization software, it is also a disk cloning software which allows you to clone hard disk to another HDD or SSD easily and quickly.

Besides, AOMEI Backupper Professional provides you more. If you want to sync all the changed files or folders in real time, please try Real-time Sync, two-way sync; or migrate Windows 7/8/10 operating system to SSD to speed up your computer's performance, try System Clone feature; For server users, AOMEI Backupper Server could be your best choice.

GoodSync is a backup and file synchronization program. It is used for synchronizing files between two directories, either on one computer, or between a computer and another storage device (e.g. another computer, a removable disc, a flash drive or a smartphone) or between a computer and a remote computer or server.^[3]

Features[edit]

GoodSync allows the same version of files to be maintained on multiple computing devices. In other words, when two devices are synchronized, the user can be sure that the most current version of a file is available on both devices, regardless of where it was last modified.

• File masks and filters allow the user to define exactly what files and folders to include and ignore.
• It detects 'conflicts' where a file has been modified on both sources, and displays these to the user.
• A tree view of the intended synchronization, with many views such as files to overwrite, files to delete, files with same length, but different time and excluded files.
• Like SuperFlexible file synchronizer, Allway sync and Unison, it has the capability to remember the previous state of directories in a database, and thus also propagate deletions.
• Can automatically keep backups of old files that are deleted/overwritten
• GoodSync can detect when just the time or state of a file has been changed and modify it on the other side, without copying the entire file.
• GoodSync can update and back-up files over a local network or the Internet. For this, it supports FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 web storage, Amazon Drive, OneDrive/OneDrive for Business, BackBlaze, Google Drive, Windows Azure, Windows Mobile/ActiveSync, Dropbox (via Core API) and GSTP (GoodSync Connect proprietary protocol). For synchronization with Android devices over GSTP, GoodSync Server can be run on device. Note that per late 2017 some protocols that were supported in version 9 (Google Drive, ACD, BackBlaze, DropBox, Box, OneDrive, SharePoint and Office365) were dubbed 'out-of-beta', having never been stated to be beta before,^[4][5] and removed from GoodSync version 9, requiring a paid upgrade to version 10.^[6]
• Scheduler: synchronization jobs can be automatically run according to any desired schedule.
• On-file-change: synchronization can be triggered by changes in left or right folder.
• Recognizes a removable drive, even if mounted as a different letter than before.
• Can copy locked files.
• Unique to GoodSync enterprise edition:
  • Mass deployment (Installation, Activation and Configuration)
  • Policies: Customize User Experience
  • Running scripts before or after the synchronization process
  • Force backup or sync on Windows Logon and/or Logoff
  • Configure and execute jobs from Command Line
  • Command line version, including the ability to schedule a job from command line
  • Integration with Active Directory
  • Parameterized backup paths such as %YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%

Versions[edit]

There are several versions:

• GoodSync (shareware version, 30-day fully functional, after this it can only sync with limitations, such as up to three jobs with up to 100 files per job and no unattended use^[7])
• GoodSync Pro
• GoodSync 2Go (For USB and other removable drives)
• GoodSync Enterprise (and Enterprise Server)
• GoodSync for Mac
• GoodSync for Linux (shareware, command line version and GoodServer)
• GoodSync version 10 beta (for Windows, re-designed with modern UI and additional features)^[8]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'GoodSync Version News Windows'.
2. ^'Supported Languages in GoodSync'.
3. ^Kerner, Sean (2008-02-13). 'Get In Sync with File Syncing Software'. Tom's Guide. Retrieved 2009-07-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^'GoodSync 9 - Simpel data synchroniseren (Dutch)'. Computer Totaal. Computer Totaal. Retrieved 12 January 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^'GoodSync 10 Beta, a Quick Look Inside to See What´s New'. Office Orbiter. Office Orbiter. Retrieved 12 January 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'GoodSync Upgrade 9 to 10'. GoodSync. GoodSync. Retrieved 6 January 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
7. ^'Free vs pro'. GoodSync. GoodSync. Retrieved 12 January 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^'Download Version 10 Beta'. GoodSync site. Siber Systems Inc. Retrieved 15 June 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links[edit]

• 'GoodSync Desktop 9 review'. expertreviews.co.uk. 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2013-10-03.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• Roseberry, Catherine. 'About.com review'. About.com. Retrieved 2009-08-11.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
• Truman, Mark (2008-04-30). 'Geek.com review of Goodsync'. Geek.com. Retrieved 2009-08-11.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)