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Time Machine Alternatives for Linux
Time Machine is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Time Machine and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Time Machine are TimeShift, Restic, Déjà Dup and UrBackup.
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40 Duplicity alternativesDuplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
Snapper is a tool for Linux file system snapshot management. Apart from the obvious creation and deletion of snapshots it can compare snapshots and revert differences between them. In simple terms, this allows root and non-root users to view older versions of files and revert...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- openSUSE
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Debian
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Rustic is a backup tool that provides fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups written in Rust. It reads and writes the restic repo format described in the design document and can be used as a restic replacement in most cases.
FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file system to a compressed archive file. The file system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file system.
Ferro Backup System™ (FBS) is a professional, network backup system intended for small offices and large corporations and institutions alike. It allows you to protect data stored at desktops, laptops and network file servers operating under Microsoft Windows®, Novell...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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