{"id":1035,"date":"2021-10-05T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2023-05-17T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T08:29:46","slug":"freefilesync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/freefilesync\/","title":{"rendered":"Syncronize your Files with FreeFileSync"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FreeFileSync<\/a> is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source<\/strong> software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Installation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Download FreeFileSync here<\/a> and follow the OS specific instruction for the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also a lot of video tutorials available on how to use this application, e.g. for synchonization of two folders at: https:\/\/freefilesync.org\/tutorials.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Configuration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let say that you want to synchronize you local<\/strong> folder “Documents” with your remote<\/strong> folder “Documents” in you home directory on the server. The follow the following steps (and also see the illustration):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. click on “New”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. on left side click on “Browse” an select the (local) folder “Documents”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. on the right side click on the small cloud icon<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. on the new window click on “SFTP” and enter the following information:
    – Server: sftpmath.math.ethz.ch
    – User name: your D-MATH username (= ETH username)
    – Password: your D-MATH password<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. click on “Browse” and (if the credentials are correct) select the (remote) folder “home” and then “Documents”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. confirm by clicking on “OK”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. and finally save the configuration by clicking on “Save” <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Minimal usage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Click on “Compare” to get the list of files that will be synchronized; for each file you will also see in which direction (local to remote or vice versa) it will be synchronized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You can temporary exclude file\/directories from the synchronization or change the direction of the synchronizationby clicking on the icons in the middle column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Click on “Synchronize” to begin the synchronization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, macOS, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141877],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/isgdmath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}