Folder Snapshot Utility Alternatives

Folder Snapshot Utility is described as '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)' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are nine alternatives to Folder Snapshot Utility for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Folder Snapshot Utility alternative is rsync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Folder Snapshot Utility are BackBlaze, Time Machine, Nero BackItUp and RsyncOSX.

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  1. rsync icon
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    Utility for Unix file and directory synchronization using delta encoding for efficient transfer, supports compression, incremental backup, remote operation via SSH, customizable filters, permission and timestamp preservation, and daemon mode on TCP 873.

    143 rsync alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
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  2. BackBlaze icon
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    Pioneering scalable cloud backup offers unlimited data protection and application storage with S3 compatibility, ensuring seamless data recovery and privacy compliance, backed by 24/7 support at one-fifth the cost of traditional solutions.

    132 BackBlaze alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  3. Time Machine icon
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    Time Machine is 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.

    97 Time Machine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  4. ChronoSync icon
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    ChronoSync can synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can connect to your Mac: select cloud services, other Macs, NAS drives, external drives, PC's or anything you can mount as a volume.

    66 ChronoSync alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. A graphical user interface for rsync, which looks-and-feels like a standard FTP client, but uses the rsync protocol ‘under the hood’ to boost transfer speeds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. Time machine alternative. Also creates incremental snapshots, but is different because the backups are bootable, gives you control so you can use the backup disk for other things too.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync.

    89 lsyncd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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