Time Drive Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Time Drive for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Déjà Dup, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Time Drive and seven of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Time Drive are Back In Time, Duplicacy, Cronopete and rdiff-backup.

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  1. Déjà Dup icon

    Déjà Dup

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    Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regularly) and uses Restic behind the scenes.

    91 Déjà Dup alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  2. Back In Time icon

    Back In Time

     51 likes

    Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "FlyBack project".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Duplicacy icon

    Duplicacy

     16 likes

    Duplicacy is a new generation local and cloud backup tool that supports cross-computer deduplication. It is free for personal use and source code is available to commercial users.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Cronopete icon

    Cronopete

     7 likes

    Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple's Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    rdiff-backup

     15 likes

    rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.

    80 rdiff-backup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Backer icon

    Backer

     4 likes

    Backer is a visual front end to the rsync command. It allows the user to select multiple folders and back them up to multiple locations. It stores your backup settings for you so that all your backups can be run easily using a single button click.

    143 Backer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. Systemback icon

    Systemback

     10 likes

    Simple system backup and restore application with extra features. Systemback makes it easy to create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems you can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system.

    50 Systemback alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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