Alternatives to Parachute for all platforms with any license

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...

Free Open Source Linux BSD Cygwin Mac OS X Haiku
Cloud sync Command line interface Delta Backup Encrypted backups ... File-sync Schedule Backup Add a feature

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Duplicati

Duplicati is the only portable backup program, able to send backups in encrypted form to another computer or SkyDrive using one of several methods (WebDAV, FTP...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Encrypted backups Schedule Backup Automatic Backup Incremental backup ... Backup to Google Drive Cloud sync File compression File Versioning Guided configuration Multiple languages Retention Schedule Support for SFTP Support for WebDAV Add a feature

187 Like
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...

Free Mac
Automatic Backup File Versioning Bundled with macOS Add a feature

158 Like
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...

Free Open Source Linux
Encrypted backups Incremental backup Schedule Backup Well integrated in Debian 9 Add a feature

50 Like
rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

8 Like
- Discontinued The product seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.2.8, released in March 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Duplicacy

Duplicacy is a new generation local and cloud backup tool that supports cross-computer deduplication. It is free for personal use and source code is available to...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Incremental backup Add a feature

3 Like
ToolWiz Time Machine

Toolwiz Time Machine (Toolwiz multi-point restoration) is a powerful and easy-to-use undelete freeware, protecting your PC from data loss and improving its security. ...

Free Windows
Automatic Backup Schedule Backup Add a feature

13 Like
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.1.16, released in December 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Windows File History

File History protects files from within the libraries, desktop, favorites, and contacts folders and creates copies of the files. in any event of a system refresh, reset...

Commercial Windows
No features added Add a feature

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Back4Sure

Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. No VSS Volume Shadow Copy function for open files. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB...

Free Windows
Backup profiles Command line interface File compression Portable ... Support for Unicode Add a feature

5 Like
Truck - Rsync Client

An SSH browser with an rsync transfer engine. It lets you point-and-click to rsync.

Free Mac
No features added Add a feature

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Z-DBackup

Z-DBackup is a modular backup system which can copy complex data sets quickly, easily and reliably to any kind of target drive and optionally even to CD-R/W, DVD+/-R/W...

Free Personal Windows
Integrated Search Add a feature

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lsyncd

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)...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

2 Like
Zinstall Backup

Full PC backup, extremely fast and allows to restore to a completely different Windows and computer. For example, restore programs, settings and files from a backup of...

Commercial Windows
Schedule Backup Add a feature

8 Like
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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Portable Schedule Backup Add a feature

1 Like
KLS Backup

KLS Backup - Powerful backup and synchronization program with FTP, WebDAV and cloud support (Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Eucalyptus Walrus) KLS Backup is a powerful...

Commercial Windows
Schedule Backup Add a feature

5 Like