Robocopy

Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.

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robocopy, or "robust file copy", is a commandline directory replication command. it has been available as part of the windows resource kit starting with windows nt 4.0, and was introduced as a standard feature of windows vista, windows 7 and windows server 2008.

robocopy is notable for capabilities above and beyond the builtin windows copy and xcopy commands, including the following:• ability to tolerate network interruptions and resume copying.• ability to copy file data and attributes correctly, and to preserve original timestamps, as well as ntfs acls, owner information, and audit information using command line switches.• ability to assert the windows nt "backup right" so an administrator may copy an entire directory, including files denied readability to the administrator.• persistence by default, with a programmable number of automatic retries if a file cannot be opened.• a "mirror" mode, which keeps trees in sync by optionally deleting files out of the destination that are no longer present in the source.• ability to skip files that already appear in the destination folder with identical size and timestamp.• a continuouslyupdated commandline progress indicator.• ability to copy file and folder names exceeding 256 characters without errors.• multithreaded copying (windows 7 only).• return code on program termination for batch file usage.

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Portable Command Line support

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software to synchronize files and synchronize folders available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

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rsync

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FastCopy is the fastest copy, delete, & sync software on Windows. It uses modern checksum verification to ensure copy accuracy and data integrity.

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Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows.

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Ultracopier

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Bvckup 2

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SuperCopier

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Free Windows Linux BSD

Drag n drop Folder Comparison Support for 64 bit
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csync

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Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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Yintersync

Yintersync.NET is a client-server backup tool providing bandwidth and cost economic delta backups of multiple computers over SSL with open file support and reporting. .

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cwrsync

cwRsync is a yet another packaging of rsync and Cygwin for Windows. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization. Rsync uses the rsync algorithm which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync.

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RapidCopy

RapidCopy is portable version of FastCopy. RapidCopy Features: - High-speed diff file copy by update date or filesize. - Stable copy(Ignore minor error). - Checksum verify copy. - Generate Log file (includes checksum).

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lsyncd

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync.

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OneWaySynchronize

Fast one way file synchronization, backup and mirroring command line utility for Windows. Perfect for personal backups.

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Robocopy

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The Best 49 Robocopy Alternatives

TeraCopy

FreeFileSync

rsync

FastCopy

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Copywhiz

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