Back In Time Alternatives and Similar Software

Duplicati

Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008. In that year the storage model was redesigned completely and the program was rebuilt from scratch. This manual describes Duplicati 2, the version based on the new storage model.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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rsync

rsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction. rsync can copy or display directory contents and copy files, optionally using compression and recursion.

Free Open Source Linux BSD Cygwin Mac Haiku

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Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image provides data protection including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Microsoft, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems. As disk imaging software, True Image can restore the previously captured image to another disk, replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing disk cloning and partition resizing, even if the new disk is of a different capacity. The Acronis True Image Cloud version allows cloud users to also back up their mobile devices.

Commercial Mac Windows Web Android iPhone

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Time Machine

Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built right into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac — digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.

Free Mac

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CrashPlan

Automatic Data Loss Protection for Your Small Business $10 USD per month per computer. Never worry about losing business-critical data again. CrashPlan® for Small Business makes protecting files on your devices, including your file server and external hard drives, fast and easy. LIGHTWEIGHT, CONTINUOUS PROTECTION Runs automatically in the background. Doesn’t slow you down. UNLIMITED STORAGE No file size restrictions or additional charge for space.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Web

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Déjà Dup

Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regularly) and uses Duplicity as the backend. It features support for local or remote backup locations, including Amazon S3. It securely encrypts and compresses your data. It incrementally backs up, letting you restore from any particular backup. It schedules regular backups, and integrates well into your GNOME desktop.

Free Open Source Linux

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TimeShift

TimeShift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system. Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space.

Free Open Source Linux

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Duplicity

Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server. Duplicity devises a scheme where the first archive is a complete backup and subsequent backups are only adding differences from the first backup. Chains consisting of a full backup and a series of incremental backups can be recovered to the point in time that any of the incremental steps were taken at.

Free Open Source Mac Linux

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Veeam Agents

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux work with Veeam Availability Suite to deliver Availability for ALL workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — from a single management console, extending Veeam’s leadership position from being the best for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to #1 Availability for any app, any data on any cloud.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Linux

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Duplicacy

Duplicacy is a new generation cloud-backup tool supporting 5 major cloud-storage providers (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox, and Backblaze), as well as local disks and SFTP servers (such as Mac/Linux computers or NAS boxes).

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Restic

Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that in the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated. Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Nobody does backups if it takes too much time.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Arch Linux FreeBSD OpenBSD

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Areca Backup

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. It also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

• Discontinued Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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luckyBackup

LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Cronopete

A Linux clone of Time Machine, the backup utility for Mac from Apple. It aims to mimic it as closely as possible.

Free Open Source Linux

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Rsnapshot

rsnapshot is a rsync based backup utillity, providing filesystem snapshot functionality. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

Free Open Source Mac Linux

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rdiff-backup

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. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.

• Discontinued The product seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.2.8, released in March 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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Back4Sure

Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. No VSS Volume Shadow Copy function for open files. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of various compression levels, as well as encrypted for security.

Free Windows

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ToolWiz Time Machine

Toolwiz Time Machine (Toolwiz multi-point restoration) is a powerful and easy-to-use undelete freeware, protecting your PC from data loss and improving its security. It allows users to create no more than 24 snapshots of your system partition on a regular basis to backup your system. If your current system gets damaged or crushed or you are not just satisfied with it, you can use Toolwiz Time Machine to rollback your system to any snapshot you want.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.1.16, released in December 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows

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Truck - Rsync Client

A graphical user interface for rsync, which looks-and-feels like a standard FTP client, but uses the rsync protocol ‘under the hood’ to boost transfer speeds. In technical terms, it’s an SSH browser with an rsync transfer engine. Features – Upload and download via rsync by simply pointing and clicking. – Browse, rename, move and delete remote files. – Works over an encrypted SSH tunnel (no setup required). – Includes rsync 3.1.2. – Connects to any remote machine.

Free Mac

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Systemback

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 installation and Live system creation.

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed and supported. Last version, 1.8, released in May 2016, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Linux

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Windows File History

File History when enabled protects files from within the libraries, desktop, favorites, and contacts folders and creates copies of the files. in any event of a system refresh, reset or crash the files that were backed up through File History can easily be restored. File History's restore interface has been made easy and simple to find and restore any version of files that were lost or damaged.

Commercial Windows

Wasabi

Storage made simple. Faster than Amazon's S3. Less expensive than Glacier.

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lsyncd

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or blockdevices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Zinstall Backup

Full PC backup, extremely fast and allows to restore to a completely different Windows and computer. For example, restore programs, settings and files from a backup of Windows 7 32bit Dell to a Windows 10 64bit HP (without wiping it)

Commercial Windows

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LBackup

An rsync based backup solution for *NIX based system(s), with a flexible scripting subsystem which provides a range of advanced features, customization and flexibility. LBackup is aimed at system administrators. A couple of examples of the bundled scripts which are specific to Mac OS X follow. These are just a taste of the flexibility the afforded by the scripting sub system within LBackup.

Free Open Source Mac Linux

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