Open-source, peer-to-peer service offering encrypted file synchronization, ensuring data privacy and user-autonomy without relying on cloud storage or central servers, suitable for various uses.
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Open Source rsync Alternatives for Windows
rsync is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best open source Windows alternative is Syncthing. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to rsync and many of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to rsync are FreeFileSync, Duplicati, Rclone and Restic.
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- 142 Syncthing alternatives
110 FreeFileSync alternativesOpen-source software for syncing and backing up files across Windows, macOS, and Linux by transferring only essential data.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Chocolatey
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141 Duplicati alternativesDuplicati stores encrypted, incremental backups with AES-256 encryption and GPG, compatible with Windows, Linux, MacOS. Supports cloud services like OneDrive, Google Drive, and includes a built-in scheduler, auto-updater. Run backups through a web interface or command line.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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98 Rclone alternativesRclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Oracle Solaris
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
66 Restic alternativesrestic is a program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Arch Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
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.
Toucan is a small portableapp utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
78 Bacula alternativesBacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
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67 Synkron alternativesSynkron is an application for folder synchronisation and folder-backups that allows you to configure your synchronisations in detail. Despite having many features, the user interface of Synkron is very user-friendly and easy to use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
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DirSync Pro is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. Java JRE 1.7 or above is needed to run DirSync Pro.
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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.
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LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync.
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Cannot sync between 2 local directories.