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  1. Duplicati icon
     355 likes

    Securely store encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local, cloud, and remote servers. Runs on multiple OSes and offers command line interface.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    136 alternatives
    3.6
    Good23 reviews
  2. Rclone icon
     174 likes

    Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    93 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good11 reviews
  3. TimeShift icon
     77 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    32 alternatives
    4.8
    Excellent13 reviews
  4. Kopia icon
     36 likes

    Kopia is a fast and secure open-source backup/restore tool that manages filesystem snapshots in a remote storage. It features client-side encryption, compression, backup policies. command-line interface and more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    17 alternatives
  5. BorgBackup icon
     57 likes

    BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Cygwin
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
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    38 alternatives
    4.3
    Very Good7 reviews
  6. SyncBack icon
     143 likes

    Support for data backup, synchronization, and restoration on Windows. Versions include SyncBackFree, SyncBackSE, and SyncBackPro. Used by individuals and organizations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    98 alternatives
    4.6
    Excellent10 reviews
  7. GoodSync icon
     138 likes

    GoodSync is a professional software for file backup and synchronization. It automatically syncs files across various platforms such as computers, mobile devices, or drives, with or without cloud-based services.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    124 alternatives
    2.9
    Poor23 reviews
  8. Cobian Reflector icon
     145 likes

    Cobian Reflector is the successor of Cobian Backup and inherits all the features from it: it's a file-backup program that can be used to make automatic backups for your directories and files, supports compression and encryption and can backup to some other location in the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    86 alternatives
  9. UrBackup icon
     39 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    47 alternatives
  10. Déjà Dup icon
     80 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    91 alternatives
  11. Toucan icon
     38 likes

    Toucan is a small portableapp utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    61 alternatives
  12. Pika Backup icon
     7 likes

    Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. Pika Backup is powered by the well-tested BorgBackup software.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
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    9 alternatives
  13. ByteSync icon
     5 likes

    Free and open-source differential file synchronization software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ByteSync securely compares and transfers only file differences — no VPN, no setup, just fast, encrypted, cross-platform sync and backup.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    13 alternatives
  14. Vorta icon
     9 likes

    Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    20 alternatives
  15. Areca Backup icon
     37 likes

    Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  16. Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Debian
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    42 alternatives
  17. Bacula icon
     29 likes

    Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    77 alternatives
  18. borgmatic icon
     5 likes

    borgmatic is simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations. Protect your files with client-side encryption. Backup your databases too. Monitor it all with integrated third-party services.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    32 alternatives
  19. Duplicity icon
     19 likes

    Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    35 alternatives
  20. BlinkDisk icon
     2 likes

    A cross-platform folder backup software, based off a forked version of kopia. Since it uses kopia, you get end to end encryption with your own password.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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