Syncovery supports various providers of S3 compatible storage.

Since version 9.33, Syncovery comes with a list of S3 servers to choose from, as well as a Custom setting to specify any server URL. The list is available in the Windows and macOS Desktop GUIs. On Linux, please specify bucketname@server.url to access non-AWS servers.

These are the S3 providers that Syncovery has been tested with, in alphabetical order:

• Amazon AWS
• Digital Ocean Spaces
• DreamHost
• Google Cloud Storage
• Linode Object Storage
• Scaleway Object Storage
• Storadera
• Wasabi

Some of these providers work with multiple different S3 API endpoints, and you’ll get a pop-up info box about how to specify the bucket along with the endpoint.

If you don’t get that message, it is sufficient to specify or choose the bucket only, and Syncovery already knows the server URL.

For Google Cloud Storage, there’s also the native API option, which you can choose as an alternative to S3. It has a few advantages over the S3 API, but when authorizing Syncovery via OAuth2, you need to confirm a warning that Syncovery hasn’t been verified by Google for this API. Google have fully approved Syncovery for use with Google Drive, but for Google Cloud Storage, the approval is more difficult to get because the OAuth mechanism would provide “too broad” control over the storage. We are therefore working on an alternative authorization method for Google Cloud Storage.

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Since version 9.40, Syncovery supports a safer way to store your passwords.

You have the choice between different safety levels:

• Legacy Encryption (Weak)
• Automatic Key Tied to This Computer (Medium Safe)
• Automatic Key Tied to This Windows User (Medium Safe)
• Password Phrase (High Safety if a good password is chosen)

The safest encryption would require you to enter your encryption password every time you open Syncovery or start the scheduler. This is probably not feasible for servers, but you can also choose to store the settings encryption password in the Windows Credential Manager. Then it would work on servers, even after a reboot and if the scheduler runs as a service.

For medium safety (which should be good enough for many use cases), you can let Syncovery automatically generate an encryption key tied to your computer, or tied to to your user account on that computer.

These encryption methods also work when the scheduler runs as a service, and even if it runs under a different account. The service will communicate with the Syncovery GUI so that it gets access to the information needed to generate the encryption keys.

You can also choose to store passwords in the Windows Credential Manager (or just the main encryption password). Passwords in the Windows Credential Manager cannot be easily stolen even by malicious software on your computer, because these passwords are not given to the credential manager in plain text. Instead, they in turn are encrypted in a way that is tied to the machine. So if a password is extracted from Windows Credential Manager and added on another machine, it will not work. Even a hacker cannot easily extract plain text Syncovery passwords from Windows Credential Manager.

The detailed choices for encryption can be found on the first tab sheet of the Program Settings dialog.

The encryption algorithm used is AES-256.

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We want to let all our customers know that Syncovery is not affected by the Log4j vulnerability that surfaced in December 2021 (CVE-2021-44228).

Syncovery does not use Java, and therefore does not use the Log4j code. Syncovery is a compiled application that is distributed as native CPU code.

Our web servers are also not affected. Java is not installed on any of our servers.

We also do not use any of the coding techniques that caused the Log2j vulnerability. There is no similar code in Syncovery.

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Syncovery also works with the new Telekom Magenta Cloud, which was introduced in 2021. You have to adjust the profiles, however.

First the url is changed from
https://webdav.magentacloud.de/Ordnername
in
https://magentacloud.de/remote.php/webdav/Ordnername

In addition, you have to create a special session password for Syncovery, which you have to do on the page
https://magentacloud.de/settings/user/security

Enter a session name below, e.g. B. Syncovery, then click Create New Session. Then you get a password for Syncovery.

In addition, the user name in Syncovery must now be the full e-mail address.

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As our new major release in 2022, Syncovery 10 is now fully released for Windows. A development version for macOS is also available.

The V10 release adds new features based on customer requests, with not too many changes to the core synchronization code. This ensures that version 10 is on the same reliability and stability level as the current version 9.

We are now using a new version numbering method to conform to standard version numbers for Windows applications (such as 10.0.1, or 10.0.1.23 including the build number).

Take a look at the list of Syncovery 10 new features here, and download Syncovery 10 for Windows or macOS.

Syncovery 10 is a free upgrade for licenses issued since September 2020. You can check your license status and order your Syncovery 10 upgrade in our ordering system. Syncovery 10 customers will benefit from two years of free updates and upgrades, including a large number of future improvements and implemented feature requests. Many thanks for your upgrade orders!

On Windows, Syncovery now has a new default visual theme that looks a bit more modern, and has rounded corners known from Windows 11 – even on Windows 10. Otherwise, the GUI is unchanged. Some time in the future, we do plan on working on a major GUI overhaul, but so far 99% of customer requests are functionality oriented, so for the time being, we are keeping the GUI that customers are used to, and working on features and functionality.

And here’s a screenshot:

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As a major step forward in Syncovery v10.11.0, you can now use Google Cloud service accounts to connect Syncovery with Google Cloud Storage. This new, more advanced authorization method is fairly easy to set up and much more reliable and stable than the previous OAuth system was. Plus, you no longer need to grant Syncovery full control over the whole Google Cloud Storage account. Instead, you can grant Syncovery access to individual buckets.

If you have existing profiles that work with Google Cloud Storage, they will continue to function normally under the latest Syncovery version. However, new connections will require you to set up a service account. It’s not hard at all.

The new authorization method is explained in detail on our page Synchronizing Files with Google Cloud Storage using Syncovery, which will walk you through the steps of creating a service account, downloading its private key, and pasting it into Syncovery.

We feel that this is a great advancement, which will allow corporate users to assign granular permissions and comply with company policies and rules.

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Need to exchange files via PGP encryption and SFTP or other Internet Protocols? Syncovery is the ideal tool for such requirements.

If you regularly need to receive a PGP encrypted file, download it and decrypt it, you can set up a simple Syncovery profile to perform the task. It can do the opposite as well: encrypt a file with PGP and send it using Internet protocols like SFTP and others.

As a reminder, you need a Private Key to decrypt PGP files, and a Public Key to encrypt them.

Here’s how to set up the Syncovery profile. On the left side, you will usually specify your local folder, or a UNC path that corresponds to a folder in your network. On the right side, you would set up the Internet protocol. Click the Internet button and change the protocol from FTP to the one you need (such a SSH/SFTP), and specify the credentials.

For a profile that PGP-encrypts files and sends them via SFTP, the top of the Syncovery profile dialog will look similar to this:

The PGP encryption is chosen in the Advanced Settings category “Compress/Encrypt”, on the tab sheet “Encryption”:

When you click on the checkbox “Encrypt PGP…”, a dialog box will appear where you are asked to paste the Public Key that should be used for encryption. You should have received the public key from the person or company you will be sending files to. It will look similar to this:

Conversely, if you are going to receive PGP encrypted files, you would choose “Decrypt PGP…” and paste your Private Key into the dialog box.

When decrypting PGP files, you can choose if you want to keep the PGP file itself too, or just the decrypted file. The main reason for keeping the PGP file, too, is to prevent Syncovery from re-downloading the same file again the next time when the job is executed.

It may not be necessary to keep the encrypted PGP file, for example:

• if you want to download the same file every time
• if you download once per day, and there’s a different file on the server every day
• if you use a date/time filter such as File Age: less than 24 hours old
• if you use SmartTracking to remember which files have already been downloaded
• or, if you copy from a local or UNC path rather than an Internet Protocol, you can use the two Archive Flag filter checkboxes on the General Filters tab sheet to mark files as processed and avoid re-copying them

If the decrypted file is a zip file, you can also let Syncovery unpack it. The checkbox for unzipping can be found at the bottom of the tab sheet “Compression”. Again you have the choice to keep the zip file after unpacking. In this case there is no reason to keep it really:

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In this post, I would like to announce Syncovery version 10.14, the latest and most refined version of our data synchronization, migration and backup software. Recent updates brought numerous improvements and new features, enhancing the tool’s reliability and efficiency across various platforms. Syncovery 10.14 represents our ongoing dedication to developing a superior solution for file synchronization, file exchange, and backup/mirroring.

Syncovery 10 works with all licenses ordered since September 2020. If your license is older, please upgrade your license today to access the powerful new features of Syncovery 10! Simply visit our upgrade page to order yours.

You will also find a quick outlook on the new features envisioned for Syncovery 11 on this page.

Most Notable Enhancements

We have been working hard on providing continuous improvements since the initial Syncovery 10 release in October 2022. The refinements stretch across all areas of the product, and we therefore recommend the latest version to all customers regardless of their use case. This is absolutely the most mature and powerful version ever, and it features countless reliability and speed enhancements.

These are a few of the most significant areas that have been taken to the next level:

SharePoint support has seen major enhancements, and a new SharePoint Library selection dialog has been created. It is now easier than ever before to find the library you need within Syncovery. For more details please see our detailed documentation on using SharePoint with Syncovery.

The integration of Microsoft Azure BLOB Storage has undergone various bug fixes, and there have been enhance¬ments regarding moves or copies between folders or containers. Syncovery can now perform server side moves and copies of files within the same BLOB storage account. Additionally, Syncovery now supports BLOB snapshots and is capable of copying and moving BLOBs along with their snapshots between locations within the same storage account. It can also remove BLOBs and any associated snapshots.

PGP Encryption and Decryption was added, allowing you to use a private and public key pair to perform your encryption tasks. The public key is used to encrypt files, whereas the private key is used to decrypt them. A typical use case is to combine PGP encryption or decryption with the SFTP protocol to exchange files with third parties. Read all about it on our PGP encryption and decryption page.

Google Cloud Storage is now authorized via service accounts or the “gcloud” command line tools. The updated authorization technique we’ve introduced is not only straightforward to configure but also significantly more dependable and consistent than the former OAuth system. Additionally, it’s no longer necessary to provide Syncovery with complete control over your entire Google Cloud Storage account. Now, you have the flexibility to allow access to specific buckets individually. You will find a step-by-step guide on Google Cloud Storage synchronization on our web site.

Citrix ShareFile is an additional cloud that is now natively supported. The native ShareFile API is much better than previous connection methods using FTP. Another integration that has been improved is the S3 compatible API, which now works with additional clouds, and can be used to connect with Cloudflare R2 and the Oracle Cloud Object Storage, as well as many other S3 compatible cloud storage providers, like Wasabi.

Special Customization Features

Did you know that Syncovery can rename files according to your specifications when copying or moving them? A frequent customer requirement is to change filenames in specific ways, such as changing the filename extension or adding or removing a date in the filename. This is just one of many customizations that can be done using PascalScript in Syncovery. The scripting language enables modifications of the standard behavior based on our customers’ needs. In most cases, we will write the script for you, but there’s also a detailed documentation page on the language and the available hooks.

Original New Features in Syncovery 10

As a reminder, these were some of the most significant new features in the original Syncovery 10 release:

• specify additional destinations in a profile instead of having to create separate jobs
• group profiles freely, and independently from their names
• the Windows version of Syncovery now supports 7-Zip format
• empty folders can be emulated when using the S3 and Azure BLOB Storage protocols
• Syncovery can spawn separate sub-jobs for subfolders on a specified level

You can find more details here: https://www.syncovery.com/syncovery10/.

Upcoming Syncovery 11

I would also like to take this opportunity to announce the upcoming release of Syncovery 11 later this year. It will feature an improved and cleaner profile editor dialog, making many of the advanced options more accessible and easier to understand. It will also include a File Integrity Scanner that analyzes your files’ inner structures and detects possible corruptions. To be able to analyze files, it will be aware of specific file types. It will support a wide range of commonly used file formats, including office documents, PDF files, as well as image, audio and video files.

Another major advancement in Syncovery 11 will be the ability to copy files from cloud to cloud without using temporary files. Some of our customers need to copy large video files from one storage to another, and both source and destination use Internet or cloud protocols. Up to Syncovery 10, the whole file needed to be downloaded to a temporary file, requiring extensive hard disk space. This space will no longer be needed with Syncovery 11, and the copying performance will also be improved.

Syncovery 11 will be a free upgrade for all orders from 2023 and 2024 (and a few months of 2022). If you order Syncovery 10 licenses or upgrades now, you will get Syncovery 11 when it is released.

Licensing Topics

Syncovery is offered at different prices for private and business/professional users. We try to make our unique tool available for a low price to private users, while also advertising prices that more closely match the software’s true value for businesses. Based on customer feedback, we believe that even the business prices are still quite reasonable. Moreover, our licensing is based on trust: Syncovery does not use online activation or any type of “calling home” to verify the number of installations for a license. Our customers can therefore be sure that there will never be any technical issues that cause a software installation to stop working, even if our company servers are down.

How many licenses do I need?

Because the license model is based on trust, we kindly ask you to check if you have a sufficient number of licenses. Especially business and professional users need to make sure they have a license for each Syncovery installation. We offer generous volume discounts and FivePacks. The volume discount improves incrementally as you increase the license count in your order, rather than solely in increments of five. In addition, the quantity of existing licenses can be increased for only the difference in price, and the new volume discount can even be credited back to the original order. In some cases, a license can be installed on more than one machine: if you use Syncovery only on one system at a time, and the jobs are not executed by the scheduler (if the scheduler runs, the license is in use).

To increase the license count for an existing registration code, please contact us or visit:
https://www.syncovery.com/upgrade/

How can I get support or answers to my questions?

If you have any support or sales questions, please contact info@syncovery.com or support@syncovery.com. In addition, we also have a support forum on our web site at https://www.syncovery.com/forum/.

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The synchronization of files and folders plays a central role in preventing data loss and ensuring data integrity. Below you will find a comprehensive overview of different synchronization methods and their specific features to help you find the best solution for your individual requirements.

What is synchronization

Synchronization refers to the automatic adjustment of files and folders between different storage locations such as computers, hard drives, servers or cloud services. The aim is to keep all copies of a file up to date so that changes on one device are immediately transferred to all other storage locations.

Types of synchronization

There are various methods for carrying out synchronization. Which variants are available to you depends on the synchronization software. You usually have the following options to choose from:

1. One-way synchronization: The backup software updates all data in one direction only, e.g. from a source location to a target location. This method is mainly suitable for backups or archiving.
2. Two-way synchronization: With this type of synchronization, changes to files are synchronized in both directions so that all storage locations always contain the latest versions. Two-way synchronization is particularly recommended for multiple users who want to access the same database.
3. Real-time synchronization: In this case, the backup program immediately transfers all file changes to all connected devices so that the latest data can be retrieved at any time.
4. Scheduled synchronization: Folders and data are synchronized at set times or at certain intervals. This method is suitable for users who do not require real-time backups but still want their data to be updated regularly.

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Data backup: the basic procedure

Creating a data backup is an important strategy for protecting your data. Whether due to defective hardware, a targeted cyberattack or theft, data loss often occurs unexpectedly and at inopportune times. If you want to protect your business or private data in the best possible way, you need regular backups.

In the following, we explain how to back up your data, which aspects you need to pay attention to and which options are available to you for backing up your data.

The importance of data backup

Data loss can occur in a variety of ways: due to technical faults, human error, natural disasters or malicious attacks such as ransomware. Without a reliable backup solution, lost data cannot be restored.

However, regular data backups ensure fast and effective recovery in the event of an emergency and are therefore an essential part of a well-thought-out data strategy. Especially in industries with strict retention policies such as healthcare and finance, backups are a prerequisite for compliance with legal requirements.

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Backing up data is more important today than ever. A cloud backup, also known as an online backup or cloud backup, offers you a modern solution for storing information efficiently. Whether you run a business or want to protect your personal files, the ability to back up data in the cloud offers numerous advantages. But how exactly does a cloud backup work, which providers are recommended, and what should you look out for? We’ll give you the answers to these questions.

What is a cloud backup?

A cloud backup describes the storage of data on external servers accessible via the internet. In contrast to offline or LAN backups, where data is stored on hard drives or NAS (Network Attached Storage) systems, cloud backup enables decentralized backup.

Your data is encrypted and redundantly distributed across multiple servers, protecting it from hardware failures, cyberattacks, or natural disasters. A cloud backup differs from pure cloud storage (like Google Drive or Dropbox) because it’s specifically designed for regular, automated file backup.

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