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
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
United StatesPlatforms
- Mac
- Linux
Time Machine Alternatives
Time Machine is described as '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' and is a very popular System Restore tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Time Machine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and FreeBSD apps. The best Time Machine alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Time Machine are Rollback Rx, TimeShift, Macrium Reflect and Restic.
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- 42 Rsnapshot alternatives
Retrospect is a multi-platform backup solution supporting hybrid backup to disk, tape, NAS & Cloud, aimed at SMEs and MSPs. Main Editions include unlimited client/endpoint licenses. Site License Edition includes unlimited server licenses.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
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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
64 Active@ Disk Image alternativesActive@ Disk Image is a disk image software that can do a backup as well as clone the full hard drive. A backup image may be stored on a USB drive, network storage, burned directly to CD/DVD/BR discs, or kept on any other media.
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35 Duplicity alternativesDuplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.
Windows Backup and Restore (formerly Windows Backup and Restore Center) is a component of Microsoft Windows introduced in Windows Vista and included in later versions that allow users to create backups and restore from backups created earlier.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- openSUSE
50 Systemback alternativesSimple 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
Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. No VSS Volume Shadow Copy function for open files. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
42 Proxmox Backup Server alternativesProxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space.
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Keep incremental versions of disk images, virtual machines, multi-media and log files in a fraction of the space used by other backup programs. Retain versions for years, instead of weeks.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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