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 users.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux




Plakar is described as 'An open-source backup and restore platform built for modern workloads. It offers encrypted, deduplicated, and instantly recoverable snapshots across file systems, object stores and cloud environments' and is a File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Plakar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Plakar alternative is FreeFileSync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Plakar are Duplicati, rsync, Restic and Acronis True Image.
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 users.




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