Backer Alternatives

Backer is described as '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' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Backer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Backer alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Backer are Rclone, rsync, TimeShift and Macrium Reflect.

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  1. Time Machine icon
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    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.

    92 Time Machine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. CrashPlan icon
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    Provides continuous, automated cloud backup and secure, scalable recovery for business servers, endpoints, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, protecting critical data from deletion, ransomware, and failure with compliance, threat detection, and easy management features.

    104 CrashPlan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • CrashPlan is the most popular SaaS alternative to Backer.

    • CrashPlan is Paid and ProprietaryBacker is Free and Open Source
  3. Cobian Reflector icon
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    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...

    86 Cobian Reflector alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Déjà Dup icon
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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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  5. Round Sync icon
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    Round Sync helps you to manage your files, everywhere you go, on your local device or on most cloud providers.

    65 Round Sync alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  6. IDrive icon
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    Secure cloud backup supporting iPhone, Android, Windows, and more. Featuring quick backups, 256-bit encryption, data protection, and full remote management with file recovery and archiving options.

    128 IDrive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Linux
     
  7. Toucan icon
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    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.

    61 Toucan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  8. Bvckup 2 icon
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    Simple fast backup for Windows. At a glance - small and very lean, very fast delta copier, excellent user interface, device tracking, shadow copying, move/rename detection, run-as-a-service mode, robust support for multi-million item backups with terabytes of data, intelligent...

    39 Bvckup 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Vorta icon
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    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.

    20 Vorta alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. DirSync Pro icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Use Time Machine to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that you later delete or can't access.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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