Bacula AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as File Sync Tools

The best open source File Sync alternative to Bacula is FreeFileSync. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Bacula and 13 are open source File Sync Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source File Sync Tool alternatives to Bacula are Duplicati, rsync, Unison File Synchronizer and DirSync Pro.

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  1. FreeFileSync icon
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    FreeFileSync

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    FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

    101 FreeFileSync alternatives
    Windows

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
    macOS
    openSUSE Linux
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    Expressive progress dialogs

    Top FreeFileSync Features

    1.  File Sync
    2.  Directory sync
    3.  Folder Comparison
    4.  Side by side version compare
    5.  Support for SFTP
    6.  Synchronization
    7.  Folder Sync
    8.  Drag and Drop
    9.  File Versioning
    10.  Portable
    11.  Command line interface
    12.  No registration required
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    • FreeFileSync is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Bacula.

    • FreeFileSync is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Bacula.

    • FreeFileSync is Freemium and Open SourceBacula is Free Personal and Open Source
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    Duplicati

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    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.

    130 Duplicati alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Top Duplicati Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Automatic Backup
    4.  Encrypted Backup
    5.  Data deduplication
    6.  File Versioning
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Scheduling
    9.  Local Storage
    10.  Cloud Sync
    11.  AES-256 Encryption
    12.  Guided configuration
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  4. rsync icon
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    rsync

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    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...

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
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    rsync Features

    1.  File Sync
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Schedule Backup
    4.  File by file encryption
    5.  Cloud Sync
    6.  Encrypted Backup
    7.  Folder Sync
    8.  Delta Backup
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    Rsync is not at all a backup server

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    • rsync is Free and Open SourceBacula is Free Personal and Open Source
  5. Unison File Synchronizer icon
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    Unison File Synchronizer

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    Unison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. *BSD and GNU/Linux), macOS and Windows, with the caveat that the platform must be supported by OCaml. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or diffe.

    51 Unison File Synchronizer alternatives
    Unison running in KDE terminal window

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Unison File Synchronizer screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Bidirectional sync
    2.  Synchronization
    3.  File Sync
    4.  2 way sync
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Folder Sync
    7.  Decentralized
    8.  Support for Rsync
    9.  No registration required
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  No Tracking
    12.  Gtk
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  6. DirSync Pro icon
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    DirSync Pro

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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.

    92 DirSync Pro alternatives
    Basic

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    DirSync Pro Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Folder Sync
    4.  Tree view
    Sync Queue
    Jobs
    +2
    Log
    Discontinued

    No activity/development anymore. Last stable version from 2018-03-07, last development version from 2018-12-28.

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  7. Toucan icon
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    Toucan

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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.

    63 Toucan alternatives
    Toucan Main Window

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    No automatical symmetrical file-deletion

    Toucan Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    2.  Incremental Backup
    3.  AES-256 Encryption
    4.  Portable
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Multiple languages
    7.  Folder Sync
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    luckyBackup

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    LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync.

    30 luckyBackup alternatives
    luckyBackup screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    +3
    luckyBackup screenshot 3

    luckyBackup Features

    1.  Support for Rsync
    2.  Folder Sync
    3.  Synchronization
    4.  KDE
    5.  Multi Platform
    Discontinued

    Latest release — 0.5.0 (2018 Nov 18)

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  10. RsyncOSX icon
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    RsyncOSX

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    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    118 RsyncOSX alternatives
    RsyncOSX screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    RsyncOSX Features

    1.  Decentralized
    2.  End-to-End Encryption
    3.  Support for Rsync
    4.  Folder Sync
    5.  Synchronization
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    Bonkey

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    Despite a name that conjures up comedic visions, Bonkey the Backup Monkey is a serious backup program with tremendous potential. Not that it isnt good now; The program is easy to use, puts all the relevant options at your fingertips and backs up to multiple locations--including...

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    Locations

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Bonkey Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    Add files and folders
    Targets
    +2
    Backup Settings
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  12. Create Synchronicity icon
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    Create Synchronicity

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    Create Synchronicity is a nice, lightweight backup program with a very user-friendly - yet powerful - interface, that synchronizes files and folders extremely quickly (it can even recognize paths such as "MyUSB"\MyFolder, and locate the USB drive called...

    63 Create Synchronicity alternatives
    Sync Profiles

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Syncronizing
    Sync-Profile Preview

    Create Synchronicity Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Folder Mirroring
    3.  Mirror Backup
    4.  Folder Sync
    5.  Synchronization
    Discontinued

    The project is on a long hiatus. Last version, 6.0, released in March 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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  13. JFileSync icon
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    JFileSync

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    JFileSync is a Java application used to synchronize directories of two different file systems. For instance, you want to synchronize a set of directories on your laptop with a set of corresponding directories on your workstation. English and German UI.

    21 JFileSync alternatives
    English and German

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    JFileSync Features

    1.  Backup profiles
    2.  Synchronization
    English UI
    Discontinued

    Last version is from 2015, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/jfilesync/files/jfilesync/

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    Syncless

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    Syncless - An open-source and free synchronization tool so seamless youll forget about it

    42 Syncless alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Syncless Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Tagging
    3.  Folder Mirroring
    Syncless screenshot 1
    Preview Window
    Discontinued

    This project seems to be dead, last Commit was on 22nd May 2010 as seen at: https://code.google.com/archive/p/big5sync/source/default/commits .

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