My experience using Syncplicity
February 21, 2017
My experience using Syncplicity
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Syncplicity
My company implemented Syncplicity a couple of years ago. It's been deployed across all users and is part of the laptop image when it'd deployed to new PCs. It allows us to backup our data and share what we'd like with our coworkers.
- By default, it is setup to backup my Desktop Shortcuts, My Documents, and my Internet Explorer Favorites folders. When I sign into a new PC, it automatically syncs these items, making it easy for my data to travel with me.
- I'm able to easily share my items/folders with coworkers, granting them read or read/write access as required.
- I like that items that are shared with me allow me to choose to sync them to my PC or not. This allows me to sync smaller items like documents and spreadsheets, but keep things like webex recordings stored in the cloud and not using up gigabtyes of space on my PC. :)
- I like that, during times when I want to free up resources, I can pause the syncing of files.
- I would appreciate it if it backed up more than just Desktop, Favorites and Documents by default. I'm not sure if this was something chosen by my employer, but it would be nice if the whole profile folder was backed up by default, so my pictures, music, and videos folders were included.
- The ease of use saves me a lot of time.
- Being able to easily share files with my coworkers also saves me time.
- This allowed my company to reduce the size of our file server and in doing so, reduced our storage budget.
I use CrashPlan for my personal PC at home. I think both products have their pluses and minuses. Both products allow you to backup your selected data to the cloud. CrashPlan doesn't easily allow for file sharing (CrashPlan isn't really a collaboration tool as much as it is a backup tool).
Both products have easy restore options. However Syncplicity automatically restoring certain data when syncing with a new PC is very handy and a feature that CrashPlan doesn't offer.
Both products have easy restore options. However Syncplicity automatically restoring certain data when syncing with a new PC is very handy and a feature that CrashPlan doesn't offer.