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In case you need an installer for an older version of our software, this is the page where you find direct download links to the latest version ever released for the past three major versions. Download: version 6.2.60 installer (Windows) version 6.2.60 in...

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP and all of its variants) is a well-known encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. While PGP is excellent for securing emails and their attachments, using it for at-rest file encr...

An important research paper published in 2023 by Keegan Ryan, Kaiwen He, George A. Sullivan, and Nadia Heninger mathematically demonstrated another weakness in RSA keys, which are commonly used as host keys for SSH/SFTP servers or to authenticate SSH users via...

At every ISV, and Syncplify is no exception, software development is an ever ongoing process. Every so often new versions are released, to add new features, improve the existing ones, and/or fix bugs and issues that are discovered or reported by users and cust...

Are you experiencing a timeout while attempting to log into the SuperAdmin or Admin UI? If your software ran for too long without a valid license, or was repeatedly started stopped hundreds or even thousands of times without ever clearing the notifications, th...

IMPORTANT: this feature requires Syncplify Server! version 6.2.50 or greater. It was not present in versions prior to 6.2.50 so if you attempt to use this feature in older versions it won't work. Sometimes, to ease transition from other SFTP servers, it may b...

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used for transferring files between a client and server on a computer network. As a junior system administrator, it's crucial to understand the different variants of FTP and their implications for sec...

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure Copy Protocol) are both secure file transfer protocols that operate as subsystems of SSH-2 (Secure Shell version 2). These protocols provide encrypted and authenticated methods for transferring files between sy...

Foreword: we need to bear in mind that Syncplify Server! is, at its core, a security software, therefore even when you use its WebClient! to create a "publicly shared object" (a shared object that's not password-protected), downloading such object is not as si...

There's no better way to automate Syncplify Server! management and configuration tasks than by scripting against our comprehensive REST API. This article assumes basic familiarity with scripting concepts (bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, or languages like Python)...

To help you get started with R2FS! we have created the video here below. It shows you how to connect your R2FS! storage to your Syncplify Server! (SFTP server) and perform all the initial setup and configuration to make it work.

Downloading and installing R2FS! is actually a very simple 2-step process: Download the correct installer for your operating system from our website Then, depending on the file type you downloaded: If it's an EXE file, simply double-click on it to run i...

Syncplify R2FS! (Remote-Reverse File System) is an optional component of Syncplify Server! designed to securely expose internal storage to your SFTP transfer server without opening inbound network access. The Core Idea Traditional architectures require the s...

More than 99.7% of v6 to v7 upgrades complete successfully without requiring any troubleshooting. In very rare cases, the v6 database cannot be automatically exported. If this happens, there is a documented workaround available on our developers’ blog. In an...

This article refers to AFT! v4.0.0+, if you're still on an older AFT! version, please, refer to this article instead. This article explains how to implement real-time folder backup using Syncplify AFT! scripting. Two approaches are presented: one optimized fo...

If you have lost access to AFT! because all admin passwords are forgotten, or because a misconfigured allowlist or CORS setting is blocking access to the web UI, the aft reinit command lets you recover without losing any of your data. The command resets the s...

One of the new functions available in SyncJS as of AFT! v4.0.0 (and higher) is TcpConnect, which performs a quick connect/disconnect cycle to any desired host on any desired port, and returns whether or not the connection was successful (that's whether or not ...

This article shows how to monitor a remote directory and automatically download each new file the moment it appears, using the RemoteWatcher object. Unlike a cron-scheduled one-shot script that polls on a fixed interval and then exits, this script runs as a pe...

Sometimes the gap between two systems that need to exchange data is entirely a formatting problem: wrong column order, different delimiter, extra header columns the receiving system does not understand, or a computed field that must be added before import. Rat...

Upstream systems fail silently all the time. An ETL job crashes, a partner's export process hangs, a cron entry gets accidentally deleted. When that upstream system deposits a file on an SFTP server for you to consume, you might not notice the failure until it...