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Your whole backup plan, drawn on one canvas.

Trasgu Sync copies folders between your Mac, external drives, network shares, a NAS and OneDrive. Draw the chain once and it runs every night, wakes the machines it needs and shows you where every copy lives.

The Trasgu Sync window showing a workflow called Nightly 3-2-1 backup: Documents, Photos and a Travel SSD on the left copy to a NAS called Atlas in Madrid, which copies on to an offsite NAS called Harbour in Lisbon and to OneDrive, all six steps finished.
One app instead of four

Sync, back up, mirror, and see it all happen.

Most people's backups are a mix of a cloud client, a NAS task, a drive they plug in on Sundays and a hope. Trasgu Sync puts them in one place, with one way to build them.

Workflows you draw

Put folders on a canvas and drag an arrow between them. Each arrow is a step: backup, mirror or two-way. Chain them, run some together, and gate the rest on the ones before.

Look before it copies

Analyze first and read one table of what will change, aligned by path. Conflicts explain themselves, identical folders roll up, and you can change any row's mind with a click.

Nothing is deleted outright

Every removal goes to a trash: the Mac's Trash, the share's recycle bin, or the app's own, kept for as long as you choose. There is no permanent delete.

Guards that stop the run

A share that mounts empty, a drive swapped for another with the same name, a mirror about to remove a third of a folder: the run stops and says why before anything moves.

Wakes the machines it needs

A NAS that sleeps at night is fine. A workflow can wake the machines its folders live on before it starts, wait until their shares are ready, and note which ones it woke.

A map of where the data is

Say where each machine sits and the map draws your routes between places, then lists every folder that has no copy outside the building it is in.

While it runs

Watch the night's work on the arrows themselves.

The canvas is where you build a workflow and also where you watch it run. Finished steps turn green with what they copied. Running steps fill from tail to head with the bytes left and the time remaining.

  • Steps that can run together do. Three copies out of one NAS go at once; the dashed box says so.
  • Gates between steps. The offsite copy only runs if the local one finished without problems.
  • A notification when it is done, and a history of every run you can open later.
The same workflow while running: steps 1 to 3 finished in green, steps 4, 5 and 6 running together with progress bars on their arrows, and a note that Atlas and Harbour were woken and answered in 1 minute 40 seconds.
Before anything moves

One table. Every change. Your call.

The review table lines up both sides by path, so a file on one side only shows an empty cell on the other. The arrow in the middle is the action, and the inspector says why.

  • Changes only, by default. Thousands of identical files collapse into one quiet line.
  • Conflicts in plain words. "Both copies changed since the last run. The copy on Atlas is newer, and smaller."
  • Buttons named after your machines, never "left" and "right".
The review table for step 2, Photos on MacBook Pro to Photos on Atlas: new photos to copy, two duplicates headed to Atlas's trash, a conflict on Birthday edit.psd explained in the inspector, and a summary of 1,204 files, 38.2 GB to copy.
Honest about what it touches

Everything it can reach, from one window.

Built natively for the Mac with Apple's own frameworks, and no third-party code inside.

This Mac & drives

Internal disk, USB, Thunderbolt and NVMe drives, recognised by the drive itself, not just its name.

Network shares

SMB shares on any NAS, Mac or PC. Mounted when a run needs them and put away after.

OneDrive

Personal OneDrive through Microsoft's own sign-in. Incremental changes, resumable uploads.

Photos

Your Photos library as a source: a year, a month, or all of it, copied out as files.

Everything about connections →

The trasgu does the work while the house sleeps.

In Asturian folklore the trasgu is the house goblin who gets the chores done overnight. Trasgu Sync is not available to download yet.

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