Open Source Lazy Mirror Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Lazy Mirror is rsync. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked eight alternatives to Lazy Mirror and five of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Lazy Mirror are Backer, RsyncOSX, lsyncd and AnyBackup.

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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...

    136 rsync alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
     
  2. Backer icon
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    Backer is a visual front end to the rsync command. It allows the user to select multiple folders and back them up to multiple locations. It stores your backup settings for you so that all your backups can be run easily using a single button click.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. RsyncOSX icon
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    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
     
  4.  2 likes

    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
     
  5.  2 likes

    AnyBackup is designed to keep two pools of volumes in sync with one another. The primary use case is backing up one large network array to several smaller volumes. These syncs are intended to be periodic and user initiated.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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