Time Machine Alternatives

Time Machine is described as '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' and is a very popular System Restore tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Time Machine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and FreeBSD apps. The best Time Machine alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Time Machine are Rollback Rx, TimeShift, Macrium Reflect and Restic.

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  1. Genie Timeline icon
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    Offers continuous, automatic backup for music, videos, photos, and documents with settable frequency, backup resumption, system recovery, space-saving, restore points, lightweight operation, easy setup, turbo mode, and support for local, external, or network drives.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Duplicacy icon
     16 likes

    Duplicacy is a new generation local and cloud backup tool that supports cross-computer deduplication. It is free for personal use and source code is available to commercial users.

    84 Duplicacy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Reboot Restore Rx makes it easy to maintain PC’s in small public access computing environments (classrooms, computer labs, kiosks, internet cafes, libraries, etc.). Every time you restart the PCs they will automatically reset to your predefined baseline setting.

    21 Reboot Restore Rx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Reboot Restore Rx vs Time Machine Comments
    andyroddick0797
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    Time machine functionality. Restore to previous baseline automatically

    • Reboot Restore Rx is Freemium and ProprietaryTime Machine is Free and Proprietary
  4. SuperDuper! icon
     34 likes

    SuperDuper makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and its built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

    33 SuperDuper! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Arq icon
     25 likes

    Arq is backup software for your Mac or Windows PC.

    54 Arq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Arq vs Time Machine Comments
    sdrawkcab
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    Incredibly reliable. Never misses finding modified files. The developer really understands the significance of the lifecycle of data management. Copy vs Backup. Incremental vs Complete. Content checksums vs file modify date. You can't go wrong trusting your data to Arq. I wouldn't recommend anything else. I've used it for 8 years now and it hasn't let me down.

    • Arq is Paid and ProprietaryTime Machine is Free and Proprietary
  6. This free software allows you to backup your data to external drives, network locations, FTP servers and cloud storages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. KLS Backup icon
     5 likes

    KLS Backup - Powerful backup and synchronization program with FTP, WebDAV and cloud support (Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Eucalyptus Walrus)

    97 KLS Backup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. ShadowProtect icon
     16 likes

    Fast and reliable disk-based backup that captures full, differential and incremental point-in-time backup images of your entire system. This includes the operating system, applications, configuration settings and data.

    49 ShadowProtect alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. ChronoSync icon
     37 likes

    ChronoSync can synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can connect to your Mac: select cloud services, other Macs, NAS drives, external drives, PC's or anything you can mount as a volume.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    ChronoSync vs Time Machine Comments
    Guest
    Positive
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    It does incremental backups and has scheduling options.

    • ChronoSync is Paid and ProprietaryTime Machine is Free and Proprietary
    • ChronoSync is a File Sync Time Machine is a System Restore Tool
  10. Use Time Machine to automatically back up your personal data, including apps, music, photos and documents. Having a backup allows you to recover files that you later delete or can't access.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Retrospect icon
     6 likes

    Retrospect is a multi-platform backup solution supporting hybrid backup to disk, tape, NAS & Cloud, aimed at SMEs and MSPs. Main Editions include unlimited client/endpoint licenses. Site License Edition includes unlimited server licenses.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
     
  12. Cronopete icon
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    Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple's Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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