Cloud storage and data backup with StaticSync
Foreword
I started learning computers 20 years ago, and everyone is still using 3.5 inch floppy disks to save data and even boot the operating system from it. With a regular sound, the disk drive starts to read data from the disk, the data is read out and saved to memory, and finally becomes binary instructions to be executed or processed as data. Disks of that era were not safe. They were often accidentally broken or bent, causing damage to magnetic disks and data loss. We often need to make a copy of the disk and save it to another disk, so even if the original disk is damaged, we still have a backup disk.
Soon the floppy disk was eliminated and the hard disk began to be installed in the computer. Although the hard disk can no longer be bent, it does not mean that it will not be easily damaged. It may be because the power supply is unstable, or it may be caused by a slight vibration when the hard disk is looking for data. These fatal factors may cause the hard disk to fail. When the hard disk is not working and the data in it is very important, we need to send the hard disk to a special workshop for data recovery for two or three times the price of the hard disk. Therefore, in order to prevent such incidents, backup is still an important thing and needs to be done every day.
Cloud storage
With the rise of the Internet, a variety of services have also begun to appear on the network, and cloud storage as a very important service appears in people’s vision. Cloud storage is like a flash drive. As long as you remember your account, you can access the data you need at any time. These important data are kept by the cloud service provider. You don’t need to worry about the data loss due to damage. At the same time, you can share data, access data on other authorized devices, and even share data with others.
In fact, this kind of remote storage service existed before the large-scale popularization of the Internet. For example, our FTP server is actually a remote data storage service. However, in addition to the security and reliability of data that needs to be maintained by server administrators, to access these remote storage spaces is not as easy as today’s cloud services.
Cloud storage and improvements from StaticSync
When we download the cloud client and log in with our account, a folder associated with your cloud will appear on your local hard disk. When you save other files or modify the folder, these new version of the modified files will be uploaded to the cloud automatically.
Similarly, if the file in this folder is changed in the cloud, it will be automatically downloaded to the associated folder on your local hard drive. You can install and authorize the cloud client on many machines, so that you can automatically synchronize your files on different machines, and no longer worry about your files being lost.
Yes, this can already meet most of our needs! I just need to think of this folder as my flash drive, and then add content to it to get everything done. However, as people increasingly rely on cloud storage, they will find that sometimes the current cloud storage client does not meet our needs well.
1. The file must be copied to the cloud-associated folder before it can be uploaded by the cloud client. I know that many users will save files such as documents directly to cloud-related folders. After the files are edited and saved, the cloud client will automatically upload the files to the cloud storage. This is of course the most convenient way to use. However, sometimes the files we want to back up are not just documents, sometimes they are other files that cannot be moved and scattered in various locations on the local storage device, and we cannot move them to the folder associated with the cloud storage. For example: some settings information of the applications that usually work, these settings include my important usage habits of these software, or my local email database. With StaticSync, you can associate any of your local folders with a folder in cloud storage by creating a new project, and StaticSync can intelligently sync your files to cloud storage space.
2. If you have multiple cloud accounts from different providers, you must install every clients to associate different cloud accounts. For example, if you have both Dropbox and OneDrive accounts, then you need to install both Dropbox and OneDrive clients on your computer. With StaticSync, you can bind your Dropbox and OneDrive accounts to StaticSync at the same time, and then create different projects to synchronize these files. No more installing Dropbox and OneDrive clients.
3. Only one cloud account can be associated with the same type of cloud storage space. You need to log out of your current account to connect to another account, especially when you have several accounts that need to synchronize data, tedious operations will put you in a very painful situation. Similarly, with StaticSync, you only need to create different projects to correspond to different accounts. The standard version of StaticSync supports binding multiple accounts, which can be the same type or different types of accounts. You no longer need to log out / login Operation to use these cloud storage spaces.
4. File filtering function. This is a great feature of StaticSync. It supports extracting or removing certain types of files from your folder, which makes it easy to sync only those files of interest to cloud storage. For example, under macOS, almost all folders have a file named “.DS_Store”. This file stores some data associated with the current folder, and these data often do not need to be synchronized to cloud storage space. So we can use filters in StaticSync to remove these files.
Other Features of StaticSync
1. Support Proxy. Some cloud clients support proxy, such as Dropbox, but some clients do not support proxy. In StaticSync, you can add one or more proxy server configurations, and then assign them to different cloud accounts. A cloud account can choose to use a proxy server as a communication channel or not use a proxy. Using a proxy communication channel can ensure your privacy in accessing the cloud server.
2. Choose sync direction. You can choose to only update files to the cloud and ignore all changes in the cloud, or conversely, only sync files in the cloud to the local, and ignore all changes locally.
3. You can select the specific synchronization method before synchronization. Before the file synchronization, all the files and operations to be synchronized will be listed. You can choose the file synchronization method in the file list. In this way, you can have more fine-grained control over all files and content that need to be synchronized.
StaticSync 15-day trial version and free Version
StaticSync provides you with a 15-day trial version as well as a free version. The trial version has no functional restrictions in 15 days, and the free version has the limitation of “only 1 cloud account can be added” (you can still create multiple projects to synchronize different folders to cloud storage).
StaticSync supports both Windows and macOS platforms.
Follow the link to visit our website for the install packages.
https://www.staticbackup.com/staticsync
StaticSync Future Outlook
StaticSync is a very young product, and we will continue to strive to upgrade and maintain it. In the future, we also want to add more cloud storage support, and even FTP or other transport protocol support. Thank you for reading this article, I hope this product can really help you.
