====== Windows File Synchronization Tools ======

===== FreeFileSync =====

http://www.freefilesync.org/

===== Unison =====

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/unison-file-sync-between-two-servers-on-debian-jessie/

===== Rclone =====

**Docs**: https://rclone.org/docs

**Filtering**: https://rclone.org/filtering/

**Forum**: https://forum.rclone.org

  * **Command-line tool to manage files on cloud storage**
  * Multi-platform, including Windows, Linux and MacOS
  * No installation required for Windows, just unzip into folder of your choice

<note tip>**This tool seems to offer the best performance when uploading/moving/migrating large shares to/from cloud storage.**</note>

==== Configure Remote ====

<file>
cd c:\Support\rclone\rclone

.\rclone.exe config
</file>

Choose **WebDAV** for many cloud services, enter the WebDAV URL, username and password.

<note tip>
VA Cloud Storage URL:

''https://cloud.virtualarchitects.com/remote.php/dav/files/<username>/''
</note>

<note>**Copy**: copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files, does not delete files on destination

**Sync**: make destination the sames as source, delete anything else on destination</note>

==== Copy ====

Example copy a drive to the cloud, excluding dot files and some others:

<file>
.\rclone.exe copy x:\ remotename:foldername --exclude '.**' --exclude=**.tmp** --exclude *.ffs_lock --exclude Thumbs.db --progress --log-file=foldername.txt --dry-run
</file>

<file>
--dry-run
--progress
</file>

==== Sync ====

<file>
.\rclone.exe sync ...
</file>

The sync subcommand **makes the source and destination identical**, modifying only the destination.  Files in the destination not in source are deleted.

==== Exclusions ====

https://rclone.org/filtering/

Exclude dot files (hidden files with filenames beginning with a period):

<file>
--exclude '.**'
</file>

==== Logging ====

https://rclone.org/docs/#log-level-level

Log levels are, from least verbose to most: **ERROR** or **NOTICE** or **INFO** or **DEBUG**.  The default, NOTICE, is usually sufficient.

<file>
--log-file mylogfile.txt
--log-level INFO
</file>