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. Fast, affordable and top-rated backup and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
    • Amazon Simple Storage Service
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft 365 (Office)
    • Oracle Database
    • TrueNAS
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  2. The Free Edition of HDClone is the ideal tool for cloning, migrating and imaging contents of internal/mobile hard disks, SSD and USB media. Since it works on physical level, it can be used with any operating system and any file system.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. BmuS icon
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    BmuS is a powerful free backup program for the automated backup of files, directories, and MySQL databases from a Linux, Mac, Windows system to a NAS or network drive or from a NAS to another NAS. It features a dashboard, encryption, cloud backup deduplication, and much more. Docker ready.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  4. Backaroo icon
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    Once you’ve downloaded Backaroo, you’ll see it’s actually just 2 simple apps: a ‘Sender’ and a ‘Receiver’. The Sender goes onto machines that will send backups, and the Receiver goes onto the machine that will store them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Snebu -- Simple Network Backup Utility An easy to set up and use snapshot-style backup system for Linux. Each backup is a full snapshot of your system, classified with a retention schedule (such as daily, weekly, monthly, etc). Individual backups can be manually expired, or exp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. An easy file backup program to automatically back up your critical data. Don't take chances with your data. Use backup software to manually back up files, or automate the backup process to keep data safe and secure.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. Folder Snapshot Utility will make a copy of anything you throw at it. Any subsequent snapshot will happen much faster than a copy (up to thousands of times faster) and using much less disk space (perhaps even zero disk space, if nothing has changed).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. SSuite Office Backup Master is a backup software solution designed to backup your data either on the local computer or onto another system in the network.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Time Drive icon
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    With Time Drive it’s easy to keep all of your files files, photos, music and documents backed up. Just set it up, and then let Time Drive do the rest of the work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. myDataSync icon
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    myDataSync is an integration of two of world's most secured and trusted cloud computing platforms i.e., Amazon and Asigra. myDataSync offers unified solution for all your cloud backup and disaster recovery requirements.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
     
  11.  Crow Backup icon
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    Crow Backup is a software that allows for the creation of backups on friends’ computers in a simple and secure manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Restic Robot is a small and simple wrapper application for Restic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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