Duplicity Alternatives

Duplicity is described as 'Software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server' and is a Backup Client in the backup & sync category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Duplicity for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Duplicity alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Duplicity are rsync, Acronis True Image, BorgBackup and Time Machine.

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  1. Bareos icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2.  Crow Backup icon
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    Crow Backup is a software that allows for the creation of backups on friends’ computers in a simple and secure manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Emborg icon
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    Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg, a powerful and fast deduplicating backup program. With Emborg, you specify all the details about your backups once in advance, and then use a very simple command line interface...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Kup is created for helping people to keep up-to-date backups of their personal files. Connecting a USB hard drive is the primary supported way to store files, but saving files to a server over a network connection is also possible for advanced users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Duply icon
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    duply is a frontend for the mighty duplicity magic. duplicity is a python based shell application that makes encrypted incremental backups to remote storages. Different backends like ftp, sftp, imap, s3 and others are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6.  4 likes

    Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
     
  7. MultiCloudBackup securely back up your personal files offsite using free online storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. ZBackup icon
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    ZBackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. nFreezer icon
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    nFreezer (for encrypted freezer) is an encrypted-at-rest backup tool, designed specifically for the case when the destination server is untrusted. With nFreezer, the data is safe on the destination server even if a malicious user gets root access to it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. MacDropAny icon
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    MacDropAny is a simple app that painlessly allows Mac users to sync any folder on their computer through Dropbox. It provides similar functionality to DropboxFolderSync, which is an application for Windows. MacDropAny is compatible with Snow Leopard and Lion (from version 1.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Poppins icon
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    Rsync based backup script with incremental snapshots.

    Poppins uses Rsync over SSH and supports ZFS, BTRFS, and normal file system based snapshots.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
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