Files sync

Tiered files can quickly be recalled on-demand, making the experience seamless while enabling you to cut down on costs as you only need to store a fraction of your data on-premises. For more information about cloud tiering, see Cloud tiering overview. Azure File Sync is ideal for distributed access scenarios. For each of your offices, you can provision a local Windows Server as part of your Azure File Sync deployment. Changes made to a server in one office automatically sync to the servers in all other offices.

Azure File Sync is backed by Azure Files, which offers several redundancy options for highly available storage. Because Azure contains resilient copies of your data, your local server becomes a disposable caching device, and recovering from a failed server can be done by adding a new server to your Azure File Sync deployment.

Rather than restoring from a local backup, you provision another Windows Server, install the Azure File Sync agent on it, and then add it to your Azure File Sync deployment. Azure File Sync downloads your file namespace before downloading data, so that your server can be up and running as soon as possible.

For even faster recovery, you can have a warm stand by server as part of your deployment, or you can use Azure File Sync with Windows Clustering. See and manage your OneDrive files. If you're using Windows 10, your computer already has the OneDrive app installed - skip to step 2.

If you don't have Windows 10 or Office , install the Windows version of the new OneDrive sync app. If you have no accounts signed in to OneDrive. If you already have an account signed in to OneDrive. In Windows 8. When OneDrive Setup starts, enter your personal account, or your work or school account, and select Sign in. On the This is your OneDrive folder screen, select Next to accept the default folder location for your OneDrive files.

If you want to change the folder location, select Change location - this is the best time to make this change. On the All your files, ready and on-demand screen, you'll see how files are marked to show them as online-only, locally available, or always available. Files On-Demand helps you access all your files in OneDrive without having to download all of them and use storage space on your Windows device. Select Next. Note: If you were already syncing OneDrive for work or school to your computer using the previous sync app and you've just installed the sync app, you won't see the This is your OneDrive folder or the Sync files from your OneDrive screen during OneDrive Setup.

The sync app automatically takes over syncing in the same folder location you were using before. You're all set. If you use more than one account, your personal files appear under OneDrive — Personal and your work or school files appear under OneDrive - CompanyName.

You now have a new white or blue cloud icon or both in your notification area and your files are synced to your computer. Note: Contoso is an example name - yours will show the name of your organization.

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