Folder Snapshot Utility Alternatives

Folder Snapshot Utility is described as 'Will make a copy of anything you throw at it. Any subsequent snapshot will happen much faster than a copy (up to thousands of times faster) and using much less disk space (perhaps even zero disk space, if nothing has changed)' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are nine alternatives to Folder Snapshot Utility for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Folder Snapshot Utility alternative is rsync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Folder Snapshot Utility are BackBlaze, Time Machine, Nero BackItUp and ChronoSync.

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  1. rsync icon
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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...

    130 rsync alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
     
    • rsync is the most popular Linux alternative to Folder Snapshot Utility.

    • rsync is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Folder Snapshot Utility.

    • rsync is Free and Open SourceFolder Snapshot Utility is Paid and Proprietary
    • rsync is Privacy focusedFolder Snapshot Utility is not according to our users
  2. BackBlaze icon
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    Pioneering scalable cloud backup offers unlimited data protection and application storage with S3 compatibility, ensuring seamless data recovery and privacy compliance, backed by 24/7 support at one-fifth the cost of traditional solutions.

    120 BackBlaze alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
    • BackBlaze is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android, Mac, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Folder Snapshot Utility.

    • BackBlaze is the most popular commercial alternative to Folder Snapshot Utility.

    • BackBlaze is Paid and ProprietaryFolder Snapshot Utility is also Paid and Proprietary
  3. 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
     
  4. Nero BackItUp icon
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    Creates your backup quickly and easily to an external hard drive, optical media or the cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
     
  5. ChronoSync icon
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    ChronoSync can synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can connect to your Mac: select cloud services, other Macs, NAS drives, external drives, PC's or anything you can mount as a volume.

    65 ChronoSync alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. RsyncOSX icon
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    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Time machine alternative. Also creates incremental snapshots, but is different because the backups are bootable, gives you control so you can use the backup disk for other things too.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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