rsync Alternatives

rsync is described as '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' and is a very popular File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 100 alternatives to rsync for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best rsync alternative is Syncthing, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like rsync are FreeFileSync, TeraCopy, Rclone and Duplicati.

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  1. DeltaCopy icon
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    Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the other hand, would only copy the part of file that has actually been modified.

    15 DeltaCopy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Z-DBackup icon
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    Z-DBackup is a modular backup system which can copy complex data sets quickly, easily and reliably to any kind of target drive and optionally even to CD-R/W, DVD+/-R/W, DVD-RAM, Blu-Ray, tape, USB flash drives and many more.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. arRsync icon
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    arRsync is a Mac OS X frontend for the utility rsync . It is intended to provide a simple interface to a powerful backup and synchronisation tool. It is quite limited but it can already performed basic backups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. VRangeSync icon
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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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. GoBackup icon
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    Performs scheduled command-line backups of databases and files to various cloud storage platforms, supporting S3, GCS, Aliyun OSS, FTP, SCP, with options for tar archives, file splitting, standalone daemon mode, and management via Web UI or HTTP API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. @MAX SyncUp icon
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    @MAX SyncUp is a feature-rich utility for backing up and synchronizing data on a local network or over the Internet. @MAX SyncUp provides an Apple Time Machine style backup using hard links. It allows for the effective remote synchronizing through an RSync-like algorithm to...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Windows Backup and Restore (formerly Windows Backup and Restore Center) is a component of Microsoft Windows introduced in Windows Vista and included in later versions that allow users to create backups and restore from backups created earlier.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Acrosync icon
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    Easy and efficient file synchronization and backup solutions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10.  Like

    This utility has been written for two purposes: for making high availability clusters; for making backups of them; consider it a better and faster lsyncd written in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Retriev.er icon
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    Retriev.er - GUI for rsync written in Qt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Syncrify icon
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    Syncrify is an ideal remote backup solution for individuals as well as corporate users, offering a cost-effective way to quickly and easily backup files of any type and size to any machine running a variety of operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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