Restic Alternatives

Restic is described as 'Program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free' and is a popular File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Restic for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Restic alternative is FreeFileSync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Restic are Rclone, Duplicati, rsync and TimeShift.

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  1. Baccus icon
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    Baccus is a flexible, fast and efficient backup application for your Mac. Baccus simplifies and manages multiple backups to external drives and NAS systems.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. VaultSync icon
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    Open-source backup and snapshot manager focused on reliable backups to NAS, network storage and local drives with clear visibility into changes and backup history.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  3. Backer icon
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    Backer is a visual front end to the rsync command. It allows the user to select multiple folders and back them up to multiple locations. It stores your backup settings for you so that all your backups can be run easily using a single button click.

    144 Backer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. 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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  5. ZBackup icon
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    ZBackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result.

    13 ZBackup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. ServerCrate icon
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    Encrypted offsite backup storage for Restic, servers, and homelabs with zero-knowledge access.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Snapper is a tool for Linux file system snapshot management. Apart from the obvious creation and deletion of snapshots it can compare snapshots and revert differences between them. In simple terms, this allows root and non-root users to view older versions of files and revert...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • openSUSE
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  8. Rsnapshot icon
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    rsnapshot is a rsync based backup utillity, providing filesystem snapshot functionality. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9.  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
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  10. 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
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  11. snaprd icon
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    Snaprd is a program that helps you to make snapshot backups using rsync. It will continuously fetch incremental changes from another server according to an intelligent schedule and maintain free space by thinning snapshots as they age.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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