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 TimeShift, Macrium Reflect, Restic and UrBackup.

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  1. 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.

    49 Cronopete alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Retrospect icon
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    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
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  3. Automatic set-and-forget backup for iCloud Photos and Drive with manual, scheduled, full, or incremental syncing to external drives, NAS, or third-party clouds, preventing data loss, enabling file recovery, offloading files from your Mac, and requiring no subscription.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. rdiff-backup icon
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    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
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  5. Active@ Disk Image is a disk image software that can do a backup as well as clone the full hard drive. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other media.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. 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.

    35 Windows Backup and Restore alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Duplicity icon
     19 likes

    Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. Systemback icon
     10 likes

    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
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  9. Minarca icon
     3 likes

    Self-hosted opensource software to backup all your data on Linux, Windows and Mac

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Back4Sure icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. QRecall icon
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    Keep incremental versions of disk images, virtual machines, multi-media and log files in a fraction of the space used by other backup programs. Retain versions for years, instead of weeks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
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  12. 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 type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Debian
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