Sync your folders with FreeFileSync for Ubuntu-LinuxMint

FreeFileSync is a muti-platform folder comparison and synchronization tool that comes with some very useful features like support for multiple folder pairs, binary files support, can create "batch files" which can be used to automate folder synchronization and others.

FreeFileSync features:

Multiple pre-defined synchronization settings: Automatic (propagate changes on both sides), Mirror (right folder is modified to exactly match left folder), Update (copy new or updated files to right folder) as well as a custom mode
Detect moved, renamed, conflicting files and propagate deletions
bytewise / by date file comparison and synchronization
Support for multiple folder pairs
Support for Linux Symbolic Links and Windows Junction Points
Network support
Create batch jobs for automated synchronization. You can then run them from the command line, simply double click the file, create a cron job, etc.
Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (you can exclude files by type, date, size
Copy file and directory permissions
You can select what to do when an error occurs or when the synchronization is completed
Easily exclude files from being synced
Save/load configurations

Install FreeFileSync from terminal via ppa:
Ubuntu Oneiric, Natty and Maverick users can install FreeFileSync from its PPA

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freefilesync/ffs  
 sudo apt-get update  
 sudo apt-get install freefilesync

For other Linux distributions and Windows, download FreeFileSync via SourceForge.

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