Backup & Sync
In life, things happen. It’s the nature of the beast. Fires, floods, robbery, and other disasters that can rob you of data occur with some amount of regularity. This means that it’s critical to have a backup or contingency plan in order to pick up where you left off the best you can in case the worst case occurs. That’s where software focused on backing up and synchronizing your data comes in.
Software that focuses on backing up physical media, local hard drive data, and even critical messages and other forms of communication is the focus here, alongside services such as DropBox and OneDrive that focus on constantly syncing data between your devices and secure external servers that you can access from anywhere with an Internet connection.
- Store email, contacts, calendars, photos, music, books, apps and more in the cloud and access them on all your devices.
- 4Shared is a large online storage facility where Internet users store their text, audio, video, photo, and other files and share them, if they wish, with other people.
- Freemium
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Symbian S60
- Blackberry
- iPad
- TimeShift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of file system at regular intervals.
- Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built right into Mac OS X.
- Tresorit is the end-to-end encrypted file sync and sharing solution which safeguards confidential information by design.
- Paid
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Icedrive is a cloud storage, backup and file sharing service with browser, desktop and mobile apps. The Icedrive desktop application allows users to mount their cloud storage space as a real hard drive.
- Freemium
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Extremely powerful backup tool for Android phones. Backup/restore all apps, protected apps, app settings, market links and much more !
- Insync is a Google Drive sync and backup client with multiple account support.
- restic is a program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free.No screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- Simple fast backup for Windows.
- Redo Rescue is an easy-to-use backup and recovery solution that can restore a fully working system from a backup image, even to a blank new hard disk.
- BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Arch Linux
- Fedora
- Cygwin
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- MyPhoneExplorer is a proprietary freeware desktop application allowing management of Android mobile phones.
- Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive.