
The supported version is 11.21 and this article will be either amended or linked to updated instructions if this changes.įor stability and convenience, the files are mirrored right here on Fixpoint : While the program's source code is public - the chief theoretical advantage of the "free" aspect - a working build procedure is not, so we'll be using the author's prebuilt binaries in keeping with the usual Windows custom. Download the installer for your operating system



It falls short in that it fails to authenticate the server to the client, a critical step of the security protocol and a feature whose presence any user cultured in SSH or SFTP software would have quite reasonably expected to go without saying. It has a limited degree of security, in the sense of interoperating with standard Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server software among other options, providing encryption of data in transit and authentication of the client to the server, based on a password or public-private key pair negotiated between the user and server administrator. It supports both one-way and two-way sync scenarios, a distinction to be explained below. It's efficient in the sense that it scans both sides then transmits only the new, deleted, or changed files, making it suitable to be run frequently as a first-level backup process. FreeFileSync is a multi-platform, point-and-click application that implements efficient synchronization of file collections between computers over a network.
