Norton Ghost Alternatives for Mac

Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting.

• One of the most important features of norton ghost is live backups which is not supported by Clonezilla Guest • May 2016 • 11 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image provides data protection including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Microsoft, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems. As disk imaging software, True Image can restore the previously captured image to another disk, replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing disk cloning and partition resizing, even if the new disk is of a different capacity. The Acronis True Image Cloud version allows cloud users to also back up their mobile devices.

Commercial Mac Windows Web Android iPhone

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.

Free Mac

Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCCs block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Rescuezilla

Rescuezilla (formerly Redo Backup and Recovery) is a Linux-based open-source drive imaging solution which boots from a USB thumb drive (or Live CD) and allows for backup and recovery of partitions or entire hard-drives and computers (Linux, Windows and Mac). The solution provides a beginner-friendly and easy to use graphical user interface, automatically finds network shares, includes the Chromium web browser and more.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

SuperDuper!

SuperDuper makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and its built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

Freemium Mac

Stellar Drive Clone

Stellar Drive Clone is a complete Mac Hard Drive Cloning utility that clones and creates a disk image of the Mac hard drive, Solid State Drives, Partitions and External Hard Drives. This Mac cloning tool supports HFS-to-HFS, FAT-to-FAT and NTFS-to-EXFAT cloning.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

MKSBackup

MKSBackup is a free front-end for common backup tools like MS Windows ntbackup, and it successor wbadmin, Un*x tools like tar, but also popular ghettoVCB to backup Virtual Machine on VMware ESX(i) host. MKSBackup is developed in Python and is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and other Un*x systems. MKSBackup is driven by a Command line interface and jobs are defined in an INI file.

• Discontinued
  The product seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.3, released in March 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

QRecall

Keep incremental versions of disk images, virtual machines, multi-media and log files in a fraction of the space used by other backup programs. Retain versions for years, instead of weeks. Backup a single file or multiple volumes. Run backups on specific days, at specific times, at regular intervals, when you log out, when an external drive is attached, or only during certain times of the day. Start them, stop them, pause them, suspend them, resume them.

Commercial Mac