Some of them depend on external framework like. They look outdated and don't fit the macOS UX. But all of them have a very clumsy interface that put me off. In theory these apps would get the job done, they promise to sync a cloud service to a local volume. GoodSync/ Duplicacy / Syncovery / Duplicati Also doesn't offer acess to their cloud using WebDAV, SFTP or any other protocol making it a closed system to their app. Super fast data transfers (in EU), unfortunately no sync on the mac app. I tried to duplicate a folder using a mounted webdav volume, but it turned out to be too unreliable and failed to copy many files. Really good and simple software, but mainly focused on backup, so it doesn't offer sync. I tried a couple of other options without much success and here's the breakdown. Seems like it would do the job, but at $8/month it's prohibitive. I make changes to the cloud storage, the app tells me it needs to sync with the External HDD, but the sync never starts. The sync process doesn't start when I plug my External HDD back in. I.e.: If I delete a file from the cloud storage, the Synchronise function will re-upload the file back to the cloud storage instead of deleting it from the External HDD. The solutions I have tried so far, without success: It seems like a simple task, but I couldn't find any reliable way to make it work. Question: Is there a software tool to do that? I'm on a macOS Sierra and need 1TB of cloud storage.įor cloud storage I'm planning to use one of those: So, the changes made to the cloud (new files or deleted files) would reflect on the External HDD and vice-versa. I need a way to execute a 2-way sync every time the External HDD is plugged in. I have been using Crashplan as my backup tool since February 2015.I basically want to have a clone of my External HDD uploaded to a cloud service. At the time, I bought into their four year family plan (=multiple computers) for 429.99 USD. But Crashplan turned out to be a memory hog (especially if you have a multi-terrabyte harddrive) and it was clear that I want a better solution so I started looking for an alternative in 2016, one year before the subscription was supposed to end. What is ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request) There are two ways of doing error control namely error detection and error correction. I focused on software solutions that would allow me to back up to whichever storage I want so that I would be in better control of my data (Crashplan at some point deleted an entire backup of mine because the computer it was associated with hadn’t backed up anything for more than six months. Apparently it was in line with their Terms of Service, but deleting backups is not a goof thing to do for a backup company). I spend a lot of time testing various solutions, including Arq, Goodsync, Cloudberry, SyncBackPro and Syncovery. Goodsync, Cloudberry and SyncBackPro were out pretty quickly :Ĭloudberry cannot handle backups larger than 1TB unless you buy the enterprise version for 300 USD. Goodsync had crap customer service (reasonably fast response, but useless and not answering my question) and it was designed more for syncing than for backing up (although backing up is possible). (Well actually you can change the source folder and the original stuff in the backup will remain but will no longer be backed up.) With SyncbackPro, the restore process seemed rather complicated and once a folder is selected as the source, you cannot add other folders to that backup job. Syncovery was very promising but I kept bumping into bugs and errors and I spend a hell of a lot of time helping the developer debug these problems and he actually ended up compensating me for some of that work. So while my experience with the software was not so good in the end, I can only say good things about the support by the developer. He listened patiently to my problems and although he insisted that he has lots and lots of customers where the software works fine, I did manage to convince him to look at the issues I had (this is how it should be but not all developers/companies do that) and we managed to track down a couple of bugs but it seemed a neverending story and so I eventually decided to scrap syncovery and start looking anew, even though this entailed that I would probably have to pro-long my Crashplan subscription another year. This is when I discovered duplicati 2 and although it was still in beta, it looked very promising. In particular, I liked that it is open source and future proof in the sense that I would always be able to access my encrypted data, even in decades when duplicati may no longer be maintained.
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