Open Source Bacula AlternativesBackup Clients and other similar apps like Bacula

The best open source alternative to Bacula is FreeFileSync. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Bacula and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Bacula are Duplicati, rsync, Unison File Synchronizer and Déjà Dup.

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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.

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Bacula alternatives page was last updated Jul 13, 2024
  1. FreeFileSync icon
     576 likes

    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

    • FreemiumOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey

    Properties

    1.  No registration required

    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.  Cloud Sync
    13.  Dark Mode
    14.  Multiple languages
    FreeFileSync iconBacula Icon

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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
  2. Duplicati icon
     335 likes

    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
    Duplicati screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Ad-free

    Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Automatic Backup
    4.  Encrypted Backup
    5.  Data deduplication
    6.  File Versioning
    7.  Scheduling
    8.  Local Storage
    9.  Guided configuration
    10.  WebUI Management
    11.  AES-256 Encryption
    12.  Cloud Sync
    13.  Task Scheduling
    14.  Web-Based
    15.  Backup to Cloud Storage
    Duplicati iconBacula Icon

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  3. rsync icon
     262 likes

    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...

    128 rsync alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku

    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
    rsync iconBacula Icon

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    Comments about rsync as an Alternative to Bacula
     
    Guest

    Rsync is not at all a backup server

    Negative commentJul 13, 2024
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    • rsync is Free and Open SourceBacula is Free Personal and Open Source
  4. Unison File Synchronizer icon
     93 likes

    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

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Decentralized
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Privacy focused
    5.  Lightweight
    6.  No Tracking

    Features

    1.  Bidirectional sync
    2.  Synchronization
    3.  File Sync
    4.  2 way sync
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Folder Sync
    7.  Support for Rsync
    8.  Selective Synchronization
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  File Versioning
    11.  Gtk
    12.  Well documented
    Unison File Synchronizer iconBacula Icon

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  5. Déjà Dup icon
     77 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 Duplicity as the backend.

    88 Déjà Dup alternatives
    Déjà Dup screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME

    Properties

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline

    Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Incremental Backup
    4.  Remote backup
    5.  Selective Synchronization
    Déjà Dup iconBacula Icon

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  6. UrBackup icon
     36 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.

    42 UrBackup alternatives
    UrBackup screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD

    UrBackup Features

    1.  Automatic Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Incremental Backup
    4.  Multiuser mode support
    5.  Encrypted Backup
    UrBackup iconBacula Icon

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  7. Synkron icon
     74 likes

    Synkron is an application for folder synchronisation and folder-backups that allows you to configure your synchronisations in detail. Despite having many features, the user interface of Synkron is very user-friendly and easy to use.

    69 Synkron alternatives
    Main window

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com

    Synkron Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Folder Sync
    3.  Synchronization
    4.  Multiple languages
    Discontinued

    Last Update: 2014-10-11, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/synkron/

    Synkron iconBacula Icon

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  8. DirSync Pro icon
     36 likes

    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

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    DirSync Pro Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Folder Sync
    4.  Tree view
    Discontinued

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

    DirSync Pro iconBacula Icon

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  9. Toucan icon
     36 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.

    63 Toucan alternatives
    Toucan Main Window

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com

    Toucan Features

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

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  10. luckyBackup icon
     14 likes

    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

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    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)

    luckyBackup iconBacula Icon

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  11. Bareos icon
     15 likes

    Bareos is a 100% open source fork of the backup project Bacula . Bareos is in development since late 2010, it has a lot of new features: Certified for SUSE, Red-Hat, Univention, Oracle Linux, AIX , Solaris, BSD with lots of Plugins for NetApp...

    14 Bareos alternatives
    Bareos screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Bareos Features

    1.  VMware backup
    2.  Distributed
    Bareos iconBacula Icon

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    Comments about Bareos as an Alternative to Bacula
     
    tonyalbers

    It's a fork, but even more open.

    Positive commentJul 2, 2017
    2
    Guest

    100% open source with all features in community version. Nice webUI

    Positive commentMay 7, 2021
    0
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    • Almost everyone thinks Bareos is a great Bacula alternative.

    • Bareos is Free and Open SourceBacula is Free Personal and Open Source
  12. Areca Backup icon
     36 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.

    82 Areca Backup alternatives
    Main screen (Logical view)

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Areca Backup Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Differential Backup
    4.  Incremental Backup
    5.  Multiple languages
    6.  Support for FTP
    7.  Delta Backup
    Discontinued

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

    Areca Backup iconBacula Icon

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