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
Timeshift Alternatives
Apps similar to Timeshift include Duplicati, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Restic, Time Machine, BorgBackup and Back In Time. Backup Clients like Timeshift are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and Android.
Alternatives list
Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
France
EU
+2
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Snapcraft
Germany- EU
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
A cross-platform folder backup software, based off a forked version of kopia. Since it uses kopia, you get end to end encryption with your own password.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Austria- EU
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
+5
Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It's packaged for multiple distributions (Fedora, RHEL, openSuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Mageia, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Docker
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
R
61 Windows File History alternativesFile History protects files from within the libraries, desktop, favorites, and contacts folders and creates copies of the files. in any event of a system refresh, reset or crash the files that were backed up via File History can easily be restored.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
United States
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 typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Windows
- Mac
- Germany
- EU
+5
Full PC backup, extremely fast and allows to restore to a completely different Windows and computer. For example, restore programs, settings and files from a backup of Windows 7 32bit Dell to a Windows 10 64bit HP (without wiping...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
United Kingdom
