Rsnapshot Alternatives and Similar Software

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 appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction. rsync can copy or display directory contents and copy files, optionally using compression and recursion.

Free Open Source Linux BSD Cygwin Mac Haiku

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, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.

Free Mac

Back In Time

Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from FlyBack and "TimeVault". The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.

Free Open Source Linux

Comodo Time Machine

Comodo Time Machine (CTM) allows non-commercial users to quickly restore their entire system to an earlier point in time (including the registry, critical operating system files and user created documents). This free tool is especially useful to roll back your system to the last known working state in the event of virus attacks or crashes.

• Discontinued According to the Comodo Team, CTM is still in development, but the old version was removed from the official website. Latest version, 2.8.155286.178, released in July 2010, can be still downloaded from the official forum.

Free Personal Windows

Duplicacy

Duplicacy is a new generation cloud-backup tool supporting 5 major cloud-storage providers (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox, and Backblaze), as well as local disks and SFTP servers (such as Mac/Linux computers or NAS boxes).

Free Personal $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Areca Backup

Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups. It also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

• Discontinued Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Cronopete

A Linux clone of Time Machine, the backup utility for Mac from Apple. It aims to mimic it as closely as possible.

Free Open Source Linux

Bareos

Bareos is a 100% open source fork of the backup project Bacula . The fork is in development since late 2010, it has a lot of new features.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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 drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of various compression levels, as well as encrypted for security.

Free Windows

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. It allows users to create no more than 24 snapshots of your system partition on a regular basis to backup your system. If your current system gets damaged or crushed or you are not just satisfied with it, you can use Toolwiz Time Machine to rollback your system to any snapshot you want.

• 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.

Free Windows

Truck - Rsync Client

A graphical user interface for rsync, which looks-and-feels like a standard FTP client, but uses the rsync protocol ‘under the hood’ to boost transfer speeds. In technical terms, it’s an SSH browser with an rsync transfer engine. Features – Upload and download via rsync by simply pointing and clicking. – Browse, rename, move and delete remote files. – Works over an encrypted SSH tunnel (no setup required). – Includes rsync 3.1.2. – Connects to any remote machine.

Free Mac

Systemback

Simple system backup and restore application with extra features. Systemback makes it easy to create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems you can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system installation and Live system creation.

• Discontinued The project is no longer developed and supported. Last version, 1.8, released in May 2016, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Linux

Windows File History

File History when enabled 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 or crash the files that were backed up through File History can easily be restored. File History's restore interface has been made easy and simple to find and restore any version of files that were lost or damaged.

Commercial Windows

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) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or blockdevices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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 Windows 7 32bit Dell to a Windows 10 64bit HP (without wiping it)

Commercial Windows

LBackup

An rsync based backup solution for *NIX based system(s), with a flexible scripting subsystem which provides a range of advanced features, customization and flexibility. LBackup is aimed at system administrators. A couple of examples of the bundled scripts which are specific to Mac OS X follow. These are just a taste of the flexibility the afforded by the scripting sub system within LBackup.

Free Open Source Mac Linux

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 Virtual Machine on VMware ESX(i) host. MKSBackup is developed in Python and is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and other Un*x systems. MKSBackup is driven by a Command line interface and jobs are defined in an INI file.

• Discontinued The product seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.3, released in March 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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 backup, synchronization and disk cleaner program that allows you to back up or synchronize your data to local and network drives, cloud storage, CD/DVD media, WebDAV or FTP server. The cleanup feature is a complete solution to backup and clean private data and free up disk space.

Commercial Windows

Uranium Backup

Uranium Backup is an Italian backup program & program-launcher for Windows environments in 12 languages. Like Cobian Backup it can backup not only complete folders but also a list of selectable single files, and it is nearly portable, see the review.

Freemium Windows

snaprd

Snaprd is a program that helps you to make backups of directories to another file system or server. You can run it on a server that has enough disk space and let it continuously fetch incremental changes from another server. Snaprd will make sure that only as many snapshots are created as match your given schedule or free space restrictions.

Free Open Source Linux

Rebel Backup

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. Rebel Backup Features Local Encryption All encryption happens locally on your computer with a secret key that only you have access to.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Google Drive Dropbox

Acebackup

AceBackup is a free backup software to create completely secure backups of your data. Store your data on any local storage device, on CD, DVD or on your remote FTP server!

Commercial Windows

Snebu

Snebu -- Simple Network Backup Utility An easy to set up and use snapshot-style backup system for Linux. Each backup is a full snapshot of your system, classified with a retention schedule (such as daily, weekly, monthly, etc). Individual backups can be manually expired, or expired based on age / retention schedule.

Free Linux

Rsync Client - Pro Edition

A remote file manager with the powerful rsync engine to haul data at high speed. It looks like an FTP client but goes like rsync. Features: – Upload and download via rsync by simply pointing and clicking. – Browse, rename, manage and delete remote files quickly and easily. – Works over a securely encrypted SSH tunnel (no setup required). – Includes rsync 3.1.2 (no command-line knowledge required). – Connects to any remote machine. – Save multiple Favourites.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Nero BackItUp

Nero BackItUp protects your files and memories on your PC or laptop. Have your filed automatically backed up on up to 3 locations, such as USB hard disks. All you need to do is click one button to set up your backup. Features - Fully automate your backups Relax safe in the knowledge that your files are safe: You can back up your files daily, weekly, monthly – or whenever you want! Just set a time and date.

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