MintBackup Alternatives

MintBackup is described as 'The Linux Mint backup tool' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MintBackup for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Cygwin. The best alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MintBackup are rsync, TimeShift, Déjà Dup and Time Machine.

MintBackup alternatives are mainly File Sync Tools but may also be System Restore Tools or Backup Clients. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of MintBackup.

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Duplicati
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Free • Open Source
Backup Client
File Sync Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
127 alternatives to Duplicati
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.
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Duplicati Features
1. Incremental BackupDuplicati supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
2. Schedule BackupDuplicati supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
3. Encrypted BackupDuplicati uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
4. Automatic BackupDuplicati will automatically back up your data periodically.
5. File VersioningDuplicati has a version system that lets you view and go back to older versions of the project/file/document.
6. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
7. AES-256 EncryptionDuplicati has AES-256 Encryption, i.e. very strong security.
Data deduplication
Local Storage
Email notifications
Scheduling
Support for Amazon Glacier
Task Scheduling
Web-Based
Backup to Cloud Storage
WebUI Management
Guided configuration
rsync
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Free • Open Source
File Sync Tool
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
Haiku
123 alternatives to rsync
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...
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rsync Features
1. Command line interfacersync either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Schedule Backuprsync supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
3. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
4. Encrypted Backuprsync uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
File by file encryption
Folder Sync
Delta Backup
TimeShift
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Free • Open Source
System Restore Tool
System Backup Tool
Linux
23 alternatives to TimeShift
TimeShift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of file system at regular intervals.
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TimeShift Features
1. Incremental BackupTimeShift supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
2. Schedule BackupTimeShift supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
Support for BTRFS
Déjà Dup
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Free • Open Source
Backup Client
Linux
87 alternatives to Déjà Dup
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.
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Déjà Dup Features
1. Encrypted BackupDéjà Dup uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
2. Schedule BackupDéjà Dup supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
3. Incremental BackupDéjà Dup supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
Remote backup
Time Machine
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Free • Proprietary
System Restore Tool
System Backup Tool
Mac
89 alternatives to Time Machine
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.
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Time Machine Features
1. Automatic BackupTime Machine will automatically back up your data periodically.
2. Differential BackupTime Machine supports differential backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last FULL backup).
3. Incremental BackupTime Machine supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
4. Schedule BackupTime Machine supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
5. File VersioningTime Machine has a version system that lets you view and go back to older versions of the project/file/document.
6. Encrypted BackupTime Machine uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
Bundled with macOS
Back In Time
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Free • Open Source
System Restore Tool
System Backup Tool
Linux
51 alternatives to Back In Time
Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "FlyBack project".
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Back In Time Features
1. Incremental BackupBack In Time supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
2. Schedule BackupBack In Time supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
Time-machine
Duplicity
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Free • Open Source
Backup Client
Online Backup Tool
Mac
Linux
30 alternatives to Duplicity
Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.
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Duplicity Features
1. Incremental BackupDuplicity supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
2. Encrypted BackupDuplicity uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
3. Command line interfaceDuplicity either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Data deduplication
WebDAV Support
luckyBackup
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Free • Open Source
File Sync Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
27 alternatives to luckyBackup
LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync.
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luckyBackup Features
1. Support for RsyncluckyBackup supports rsync, a free and open source file synchronization software.
Folder Sync
Synchronization
KDE
Multi Platform
Snapper- Snapshot Manager
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Free • Open Source
System Restore Tool
Linux
13 alternatives to Snapper- Snapshot Manager
Snapper is a tool for Linux file system snapshot management. Apart from the obvious creation and deletion of snapshots it can compare snapshots and revert differences between them. In simple terms, this allows root and non-root users to view older versions of files and revert...
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Snapper- Snapshot Manager Features
1. Incremental Backup Snapper- Snapshot Manager supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).
2. Schedule Backup Snapper- Snapshot Manager supports scheduling of your backups at specific times or intervals.
Systemback
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Free • Open Source
Linux
50 alternatives to Systemback
Simple system backup and restore application with extra features. Systemback makes it easy to create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems you can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system.

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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed and supported. Last version, 1.8, released in May 2016, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.