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DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively.

Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied.

Use DirSync Pro to easily synchronize files from your desktop PC to your USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...). Use this USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...) to synchronize files to another desktop PC.

Unlike many other synchronization software, DirSync Pro is Open Source; it is 100% free of charge, 100% free of commercial text, 100% free of advertisements and 100% free of spyware. You can use it as long as you like, without any limitations in time or funcationality. You can freely distribute it according to GPL3.

DirSync Pro is programmed completely in platform independent Java™ so it can be run under nearly every modern operating system including Windows™, Linux™ and Macintosh™.

DirSync Pro has a user-friendly User Interface which helps you configure many options to your needs. You can use DirSync Pro also through the command line which makes it very flexible for running in batches.

DirSync Pro has a powerful schedule engine which lets you schedule synchronization tasks on many different ways, minutely, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. Advanced users may use tons of options available in DirSync Pro to suit the synchronization behavior in details. DirSync Pro has many logging facilities which let you create detailed logs even per job.

ChipsNHotSauce wrote:On the upside it's platform independent, On the downside it's "made in java"

webfork wrote:Didn't work on a Mac OS 10.5.

Please note: for 32-bit version OS X you may need to install Sun Java 1.6.x mannually in addition to the Java version that is already installed on your system (perhaps 1.5.x). Use then the manually installed of Java 1.6.x to start DirSync Pro.

karl_karlsson wrote:you may need to install Sun Java 1.6.x mannually

karl_karlsson wrote:Depending on Java usually means heavy resource consumption. Than it's interesting to see the performance and reliability, which sometimes outweigh the resource consumption.

karl_karlsson wrote:

webfork wrote:Didn't work on a Mac OS 10.5.

I've not tried it yet on Mac but that may help:

Please note: for 32-bit version OS X you may need to install Sun Java 1.6.x mannually in addition to the Java version that is already installed on your system (perhaps 1.5.x). Use then the manually installed of Java 1.6.x to start DirSync Pro.

• Fine-tuned controls over every aspect of the backup inculding verification, individual files, filters for groups of files, and multiple different jobs.
• A variety of settings including Mirror (copy over different files), Sync (both locations exchange their newest files), Backup (copy over all files), Contribute (add files, no delete), and custom settings. This whole setup was killer.
• Can generate a command-line backup, great for batch maintenance.
• Can handle scheduled backups, but the program must be running (doesn't automatically use Windows own Scheduled Tasks tool, although it can).
• Progress bar includes both the time taken so far and an estimate of how much is left.

• Saves settings to dirsyncpro.properties.
• Large, detailed PDF manual included, the author mentions the ability to run from a USB drive in the help file. So clearly the author is aware of portability issues.

• Doesn't support:
  
  • Autosave (you must save manually).
  • Compression.
  • FTP. To get it to upload files via FTP, I'd recommend NetDrive (not portable) + Tunnelier (if you need security).
  • Large sets of files can take a while. In my test 1.5 gigs of about 3,600 files took about 5:30 mins. Still this was faster than Dsyncronize.
  • Uses a good chunk of CPU (about 50% on my system) while running and of course as a Java program, it uses a good chunk of RAM. The command-line bit mentioned above would help somewhat with this issue, by setting it to run and terminate during idle periods.
  • Transfer speeds listing (for diagnosing slow networks or bottlenecks).
  • File listing save. Instead it checks every file every time the program is run, and therefore can take quite a while. If it had some way to quickly check for local file changes, that could save quite a bit of time.
  Recommendations:
  
  • In options, check "load last job set upon startup", even though this doesn't work with relative paths.
  • Analyze first, THEN synchronize ... unlike some other backup / sync programs, this one doesn't encourage this with popups or warnings.
  • For network transfers, it seemed to work better with mapped network drives rather than locations (e.g. \\192.168.1.111\drive ).

1. Download the file labeled "MS Windows executable" zip file and extract to a folder named dirsyncpro
2. Download jPortable to CommonFiles\Java directory and extract to the same folder you put dirsyncpro. (For Example: g:\portable\dirsyncpro with g:\portable\CommonFiles\Java)
3. Create a text file with the following contents:
   
   • @echo off
     @start "" "%~dp0\..\CommonFiles\Java\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%~dp0dirsyncpro.jar"
4. Save in the dirsyncpro folder as startdirsyncpro.bat
5. Launch startdirsyncpro.bat

joby_toss wrote:... I won't vote for such an unpolished entry. ...

joby_toss wrote:Works fine with jPortable