Restic Alternatives

Restic is described as 'Program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free' and is a popular File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Restic for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Restic alternative is FreeFileSync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Restic are Duplicati, Rclone, rsync and TimeShift.

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  1. JuiceFS icon
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    JuiceFS helps you to mount any S3-like object storage to a local folder and access on different cross-platform and cross-region hosts at the same time.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. RsyncOSX icon
     6 likes

    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. ZBackup icon
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    ZBackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Rsnapshot icon
     16 likes

    rsnapshot is a rsync based backup utillity, providing filesystem snapshot functionality. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. KBackup icon
     3 likes

    KBackup is an application which lets you back up your data in a simple, user friendly way

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
  6.  Crow Backup icon
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    Crow Backup is a software that allows for the creation of backups on friends’ computers in a simple and secure manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Rebel Backup icon
     2 likes

    Rebel Backup lets you make encrypted backups of your important files offsite to Dropbox or Google Drive. You control what and how often is backed up, and the encryption happens locally on your computer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Google Drive
    • Dropbox
     
  8. snaprd icon
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    Snaprd is a program that helps you to make snapshot backups using rsync. It will continuously fetch incremental changes from another server according to an intelligent schedule and maintain free space by thinning snapshots as they age.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. VaultSync icon
     2 likes

    Open-source backup and snapshot manager focused on reliable backups to NAS, network storage and local drives with clear visibility into changes and backup history.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  10. Self-hosted web GUI and centralized management dashboard for BorgBackup. Schedule, monitor, and restore backups across multiple servers from a single web interface with agent-based architecture. Works with Docker and/or Bare Metal. Supports Mac, Linux and Windows clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker Hub
     
  11. FolderClone icon
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    FolderClone lets you make an identical copy of a folder from one drive to another. It can copy files between a desktop computer and a laptop, or replicate data between a workstation and a server, or backup to a cloud storage provider.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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