What is FileAgent?

#Overview

FileAgent is a file transfer and automation platform you install on a server or workstation inside your own environment. It copies, moves, and replicates (Sync/Mirror) files between the systems you already run — local folders, SMB/network shares, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, and Azure Blob Storage — on a schedule, with run history, alerts, automatic retries, and an encrypted credential store.

Everything is managed from a clean web console. You define a job, point it at a source and a destination, schedule it, and watch every run from one place. FileAgent is the operational control plane for recurring file movement — without brittle scripts or the cost and complexity of traditional enterprise managed file transfer (MFT) suites.

#What FileAgent does

• Automates transfers — copy, move, or mirror files between any two supported systems, on a recurring schedule or on demand.
• Cleans up old files — Scheduled Purge deletes files older than an age you choose, for retention housekeeping (Business plans and above).
• Keeps secrets safe — connection passwords and keys live in one encrypted credential store, not scattered across scripts.
• Tells you what happened — every run is recorded with status, duration, file counts, and per-file detail, with alerts by email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams.
• Recovers gracefully — automatic retries absorb transient network blips, and an optional Archive keeps a recoverable copy of files that jobs move.

#Problems it solves

• Scripts nobody wants to own. PowerShell and Bash transfer jobs grow organically, fail silently, and leave with the person who wrote them. FileAgent replaces them with visible, managed jobs.
• Scheduled-task blind spots. Cron and Task Scheduler give you no shared view of what ran, what failed, or why. FileAgent records every run.
• Manual FTP/SFTP work. Desktop FTP clients move files but offer no scheduling, retries, history, or alerting for recurring workflows.
• Failures discovered too late. Retries and alerts surface problems the moment they happen instead of hours later.
• Credentials everywhere. Connection secrets are centralized and encrypted instead of hardcoded in files.
• Enterprise MFT overkill. Traditional MFT suites are powerful but expensive and slow to roll out. FileAgent delivers the operational controls most teams actually need.

#What FileAgent is not

Knowing the boundaries helps you use it well:

• It is not a backup product. FileAgent moves and cleans up files; it does not provide point-in-time backups or versioned recovery. Scheduled Purge in particular permanently deletes files. Keep a separate backup for anything you must be able to restore.
• It is not a cloud service. There is no FileAgent cloud that holds your files. You run it yourself and your data stays on your network.
• It is not a real-time sync agent. Jobs run on a schedule (or on demand), not as a continuous file-system watcher.

#Where to go next

If FileAgent sounds like a fit, see who should use FileAgent and the core concepts, then follow the quick start checklist to install and run your first job.