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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Folder Snapshot Utility alternatives page was last updated Jan 30, 2020
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  1. rsync icon

    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...

    128 rsync alternatives

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    • Free • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Haiku
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    rsync Features

    1.  File Sync
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Schedule Backup
    4.  Folder Sync
    5.  Cloud Sync
    6.  Encrypted Backup
    7.  File by file encryption
    8.  Delta Backup

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    • 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
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    BackBlaze

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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.

    128 BackBlaze alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
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    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    Top BackBlaze Features

    1.  Remote backup
    2.  Incremental Backup
    3.  Unlimited storage
    4.  Encrypted sync
    5.  Encrypted Backup
    6.  AES-256 Encryption
    7.  End-to-End Encryption
    8.  Two-factor Authentication
    9.  File Versioning
    10.  Dark Mode
    11.  Cloud Sync
    12.  Automatic Backup

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    • 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
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    Time Machine

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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.

    91 Time Machine alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Interface

    Time Machine Features

    1.  Automatic Backup
    2.  Differential Backup
    3.  Incremental Backup
    4.  Schedule Backup
    5.  File Versioning
    6.  Encrypted Backup
    7.  Bundled with macOS

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    BackBlaze

    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 ...

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    Nero BackItUp

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    Nero BackItUp is a software for file and data protection on personal computers or laptops. It enables automatic backup of files to three locations, including USB hard drives. It offers features such as scheduling backups daily, weekly, or monthly, continuous file backup, and...

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    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
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    Nero BackItUp Features

    1.  Schedule Backup
    2.  Encrypted Backup
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Time-machine

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    ChronoSync

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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

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    Create multiple synchronizer documents and add them to a Container.

    ChronoSync Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Schedule Backup
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Cloud Sync
    6.  Synchronization
    7.  Backup on mount
    8.  Bootable Backup

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    RsyncOSX

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    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • NO flagNorway

    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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    Truck - Rsync Client

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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.

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    • Mac
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    Truck - Rsync Client Features

    1.  Drag and Drop

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    Mac Backup Guru

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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.

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    • US flagUnited States

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    • Mac
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    Mac Backup Guru Features

    1.  Time-machine

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  12. lsyncd

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    lsyncd Features

    1.  Folder Sync

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