Areca Backup Alternatives

Areca Backup is described as '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' and is a Backup Client in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Areca Backup for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Web-based apps. The best Areca Backup alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Areca Backup are Rclone, rsync, Macrium Reflect and TimeShift.

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  1. Backup Maker icon
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    BackUp Maker is a professional, user-friendly tool for creating automated data backups. Configure once and let it save files based on time, intervals, or system events. Use partial backups, advanced filters, and multiple generations to protect your data efficiently and securely.

    59 Backup Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. RsyncUI icon
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    RsyncUI is a macOS application developed using Swift and SwiftUI, designed for macOS Sonoma and subsequent versions. It leverages the command-line tool rsync for file synchronization. Notably, rsync executes the synchronization tasks, while RsyncUI provides a graphical user...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
  3. Amanda icon
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    Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects more than a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  4. RsyncOSX icon
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    A macOS GUI for rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. SyncTime icon
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    SyncTime is the easy-to-use and flexible solution to synchronize your files. Keep all your backup copies up to date with the click of a button, with automated schedules, from the Shortcuts app or even via AppleScript.

    42 SyncTime alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. AutoVer icon
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    AutoVer is a configurable automatic or real time backup and personal versioning system. It can be used as a simple real time backup or as a more complex, but transparent version control system (like a realtime incremental backup).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Personal-Backup is an English/German program to save personal data to any destination folder. This folder may be located on a local fixed or removable drive, on a windows network server or on a FTP server.

    36 Personal Backup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Rebel Backup icon
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    Rebel Backup lets you make encrypted backups of your important files offsite to Dropbox or Google Drive. You control what and how often is backed up, and the encryption happens locally on your computer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Google Drive
    • Dropbox
     
  9. Syncrify icon
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    Syncrify is an ideal remote backup solution for individuals as well as corporate users, offering a cost-effective way to quickly and easily backup files of any type and size to any machine running a variety of operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. BUtil icon
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    Features include quick full or incremental backups, cloud synchronization, command line interface control, built-in compression, email notifications, password-protected encryption, file explorer, file filtering, file versioning, network backup, third-party plugin functionality...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. File 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.

    69 Windows File History alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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