Synchronization between local system and FTP

Solution 1:

9 years later edit

take a look at the comments.

avoid using ftp at all costs!

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original answer

After a quick research, I could find only 1 good. Pardon for the name: GoodSync. Main problem is: its free version is almost useless, unless you only need to sync less than 100 files. It doesn't seem expensive, tho (specially compared to other options).

Here were the options I've found:

• FTPSynch is paid and only for windows. Doesn't look too good or simple as well.
• FTPbox is also only for windows, but it does have the best name (as an answer to the op's question) and great open source / free potential.
• Syncany is the linux equivalent of ftpbox, but it has no release yet.
• WinSCP is too complicated (out of dropbox simplicity context) and windows only.
• mybackupbox the most expensive option at $10 per month, seems like the free version wouldn't keep things in sync, with just 10 "syncs" per month.
• rsync - this didn't came up on my research but I'm just adding to the least for completeness sake. It can work very much like dropbox, but it's not simple on windows and it doesn't do the job by its own.

There are many features and differences as well (think of file sharing, which none of the above have), but for simple FTP sync to replace common task of uploading files to FTP, all of them seem good enough.