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 Rclone, Duplicati, rsync and TimeShift.

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  1. 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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • openSUSE
     
  2. 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
     
  3. Backer icon
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    Backer is a visual front end to the rsync command. It allows the user to select multiple folders and back them up to multiple locations. It stores your backup settings for you so that all your backups can be run easily using a single button click.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. VaultSync icon
     3 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
     
  5. 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
     
  6. RsyncOSX icon
     6 likes

    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Rsnapshot icon
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    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
     
  8. KBackup icon
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    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
     
  9. ServerCrate icon
     1 like

    Encrypted offsite backup storage for Restic, servers, and homelabs with zero-knowledge access.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10.  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
     
  11. Fast, affordable and top-rated backup and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments.

    33 NAKIVO Backup & Replication alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
    • Amazon Simple Storage Service
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft 365 (Office)
    • Oracle Database
    • TrueNAS
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  12. Rebel Backup icon
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    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
     
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