Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Time Machine

Product categories

Antivirus Backup Backup & Restore Backup & Sync Backup And Disaster Recovery Backup Automation Brand Management Cloud Storage Cyber Security Encrypted Cloud Storage File Sharing File Sharing And Backup

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Time Machine are Duplicati, rsync, and Clonezilla. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Duplicati Landing Page
1

Duplicati

Free backup software to store backups online with strong encryption. Works with FTP, SSH, WebDAV, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Google Drive and many others.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Sharing And Backup #Cloud Storage #File Sharing 9 social mentions
rsync Landing Page
2

rsync

rsync is a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Sharing And Backup #File Transfer #File Sharing 13 social mentions
Clonezilla Landing Page
3

Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a suite of software that's designed to allow you to back-up and image new hard drives with your data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cyber Security #Backup & Restore #Antivirus 2 social mentions
Duplicacy Landing Page
4

Duplicacy

A new generation cross-platform cloud backup tool
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Sharing And Backup #Backup #Backup & Restore 78 social mentions
Restic Landing Page
5

Restic

Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Backup #Backup Automation #Online Backup 183 social mentions
Dropbox Landing Page
6

Dropbox

Online Sync and File Sharing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Office Suites 28 social mentions
UrBackup Landing Page
7

UrBackup

UrBackup is a open source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Sharing And Backup #Backup & Restore #Backup Automation 2 social mentions
Arq Landing Page
8

Arq

Arq is super-easy online backup
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Backup & Sync 14 social mentions
fogproject.org
9

FOG Project

A free open-source network computer cloning and management solution
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cyber Security #Backup & Restore #Antivirus 69 social mentions
Rclone Landing Page
10

Rclone

rsync for cloud storage.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #Web Service Automation #File Sharing And Backup 616 social mentions
rdiff-backup Landing Page
11

rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #Backup & Sync #File Sharing 15 social mentions
Tarsnap Landing Page
12

Tarsnap

Tarsnap is a secure online backup system for UNIX
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Sharing #Cloud Storage #Digital Asset Management 3 social mentions