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 photos, videos, VMs, containers, log files, or any blob of data as objects.
- Free • Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
- Game Backup Monitor is a simple, but flexible application that detects games as you play them.
- UrBackup is a open source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups accomplishes both data safety and a fast restoration time.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Volafile.org offers real time filesharing and fast downloads without delays or annoying countdowns. Users can share files in rooms, each with a chat and a filelist.
- DirSync Pro is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. Java JRE 1.7 or above is needed to run DirSync Pro.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Safely back up any iOS device. Powerful and user-friendly, iMazing is simply the best iOS device manager for Mac and PC.
- One app to quickly and securely verify your identity online, for all of your accounts.
- Free
- Android
- iPhone
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "FlyBack project".
- The privacy-friendly online storage and file sync service. From 2 TB, hosted in Switzerland.
- USBImager is a really really simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
- FolderSync enables simple and automatic sync to cloud based storage to and from local folders on the device memory card.
- Freemium
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Kindle Fire
- Grsync is a rsync gui, a graphical user interface for the rsync file synchronization and backup tool. It works on linux, solaris, windows, mac os x and maemo.
- Degoo is a backup app for Windows, Mac OS X and Android that lets you back-up your data in the cloud.
- Freemium
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Syncany is an open-source cloud storage and filesharing application. It allows users to backup and share certain folders of their workstations using any kind of storage, e.g.
Discontinued
"The core team of Syncany is on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time." See https://github.com/syncany/syncany
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux