ZBackup Alternatives

Apps similar to ZBackup include Duplicati, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Restic, BorgBackup, ByteSync and Plakar. You can choose from more than 10 Backup Clients like ZBackup for Linux, Mac, Windows and self-hosting.

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  1. Duplicati icon
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    Duplicati stores encrypted, incremental backups with AES-256 encryption and GPG, compatible with Windows, Linux, MacOS. Supports cloud services like OneDrive, Google Drive, and includes a built-in scheduler, auto-updater. Run backups through a web interface or command line.

    155 Duplicati alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Restic icon
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    restic is a program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free.

    73 Restic alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  3. BorgBackup icon
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    BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

    47 BorgBackup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Cygwin
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
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  4. ByteSync icon
     5 likes

    Free and open-source differential file synchronization software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ByteSync securely compares and transfers only file differences — no VPN, no setup, just fast, encrypted, cross-platform sync and backup.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Plakar icon
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    An open-source backup and restore platform built for modern workloads. It offers encrypted, deduplicated, and instantly recoverable snapshots across file systems, object stores and cloud environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  6. Self-hosted web GUI and centralized management dashboard for BorgBackup. Schedule, monitor, and restore backups across multiple servers from a single web interface with agent-based architecture. Works with Docker and/or Bare Metal. Supports Mac, Linux and Windows clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker Hub
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  7. 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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  8. Duplicity icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. borgmatic icon
     5 likes

    borgmatic is simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations. Protect your files with client-side encryption. Backup your databases too. Monitor it all with integrated third-party services.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. 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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  11. Emborg icon
     4 likes

    Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg, a powerful and fast deduplicating backup program. With Emborg, you specify all the details about your backups once in advance, and then use a very simple command line interface...

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. Rustic icon
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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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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