Open-source software for syncing and backing up files across Windows, macOS, and Linux by transferring only essential data.
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- Freemium
- Open Source
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Robocopy Alternatives for Linux
Robocopy is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is FreeFileSync, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Robocopy and 15 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Robocopy are Rclone, rsync, Unison File Synchronizer and Ultracopier.
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108 FreeFileSync alternatives
96 Rclone alternativesRclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Oracle Solaris
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
135 rsync alternativesrsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring...
rsync vs Robocopy Comments
- rsync is Free and Open Source
- rsync is Privacy focused
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. *BSD and GNU/Linux), macOS and Windows, with the caveat that the platform must be supported by OCaml. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or diffe.
30 Ultracopier alternativesUltracopier replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features: Transfer resuming, transfer speed control, transfer speed computation, better transfer progress display, faster transfers, copy list editable while transferring.
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12 CopyMastro alternativesCopyMastro is an open source copy and backup utility developed by Marco Mastroddi. You don't need to install, just download, unzip and start it. Simple, fast and useful.
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29 SuperCopier alternativesSuperCopier replaces Windows explorer file copy and adds many features: Transfer resuming, transfer speed control, transfer speed computation, better transfer progress display, faster transfers, copy list editable while transferring.
44 Rclone GUI alternativesA GUI for Rclone, with additional features including batch file generation, auto cloud setup, and saved file/folder paths.
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- 89 lsyncd alternatives
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) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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VRangeSync is a freeware File synchronization for Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows. It is a command-line utility which copy and move data from one location to another on a storage device. It is a data migration, cloner, file replication and synchronization software.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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27 NIS One-Click-Backup alternativesOne-Click-Backup saves (copies) your folders to an external location of your choice. You can select the default folders in your home directory as well as add aditional folders.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
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