{"id":2695,"date":"2013-12-29T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T08:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2013-12-29T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T08:44:51","slug":"install-freefilesync-6-ppa-ubuntu-1310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-freefilesync-6-ppa-ubuntu-1310\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install FreeFileSync via PPA in Ubuntu Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-6-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2696\" alt=\"Free File Sync Ubuntu PPA\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-6-logo.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-6-logo.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-6-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FreeFileSync a folder comparison and synchronization tool that provides highly optimized performance and usability without needless user interface complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Key Features of FreeFileSync:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detect moved and renamed files and folders<\/li>\n<li>Copy locked files (Volume Shadow Copy Service)<\/li>\n<li>Detect conflicts and propagate deletions<\/li>\n<li>Binary file comparison<\/li>\n<li>Configure handling of Symbolic Links<\/li>\n<li>Automate sync as a batch job<\/li>\n<li>Process multiple folder pairs<\/li>\n<li>Comprehensive and detailed error reporting<\/li>\n<li>Copy NTFS extended attributes (compressed, encrypted, sparse)<\/li>\n<li>Copy NTFS security permissions<\/li>\n<li>Support long file paths with more than 260 characters<\/li>\n<li>Fail-safe file copy<\/li>\n<li>Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X<\/li>\n<li>Expand environment variables like %USERPROFILE%<\/li>\n<li>Access variable drive letters by volume name (USB sticks)<\/li>\n<li>Native 64-bit support<\/li>\n<li>Keep versions of deleted\/updated files<\/li>\n<li>Prevent disc space bottlenecks via optimal sync sequence<\/li>\n<li>Full Unicode support<\/li>\n<li>Highly optimized runtime performance<\/li>\n<li>Include\/exclude files via filter<\/li>\n<li>FreeFileSync portable and local installation available<\/li>\n<li>Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT\/FAT32<\/li>\n<li>Use macros %time%, %date%, et al. for recurring backups<\/li>\n<li>Case-sensitive synchronization<\/li>\n<li>Built-in locking: serialize multiple jobs running against the same network share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Install FreeFileSync in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freefilesync\/ffs\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install freefilesync<\/pre>\n<p>Currently support Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint. Go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~freefilesync\/+archive\/ffs\" title=\"FreeFileSync PPA\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad page<\/a> to check out if your Ubuntu release is supported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-Ubuntu1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-Ubuntu1.jpg\" alt=\"Install FreeFileSync Ubuntu\" width=\"580\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-Ubuntu1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FreeFileSync-Ubuntu1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FreeFileSync a folder comparison and synchronization tool that provides highly optimized performance and usability without needless user interface complexity. Key Features of FreeFileSync: Detect moved and renamed files and folders Copy locked files (Volume Shadow Copy Service) Detect conflicts and propagate deletions Binary file comparison Configure handling of Symbolic Links Automate sync as a batch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[943,942,944],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-folder-comparison","tag-freefilesync","tag-synchronization-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}