ChronoAgent allows unrestricted, high speed, secure file transfers between ChronoSync and another Mac on your network. You will need to install ChronoAgent on a remote Mac if you wish to:
If you are synchronizing standard document files or performing lightweight backups, the file sharing built in to macOS will work fine. However, you might want ChronoAgent for:
Just how much faster is ChronoAgent than built-in file sharing? Here are some benchmarks of a modestly sized home folder backed up using built-in file sharing versus ChronoAgent:
File Sharing | ChronoAgent | |
Initial Home Folder backup: (653,000+ files, 285+ GB of data) |
7h 50m 6s | 1h 45m 41s |
Average daily backup thereafter: (~5700 changed files, ~14.2 GB each day) |
48m 17s | 10m 47s |
To learn more about the benefits of ChronoAgent, check out this video.