rsync

rsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.

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The Best 110 rsync Alternatives

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software to synchronize files and synchronize folders available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Debian CentOS Ubuntu openSUSE

File sync Cloud sync Multiple languages
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Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android Android Tablet BSD Mac Self-Hosted Cloudron

File sync Decentralized Peer To Peer Real time sync File search Mesh network
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SyncToy

SyncToy is a free PowerToy designed by Microsoft, that provides an easy to use graphical user interface that can automatically synchronize local or network files and folders, but not WebDAV-, "Windows Mobile" files or folders and...

Free Windows
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SyncBack

SyncBack is a backup and file synchronization software that allows backing up and synchronizing files to the same or different drives, to different media (CD, DVD, Flash, zip), or to a remote server.

Freemium Windows
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GoodSync

GoodSync syncs files between your computer, mobile devices, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, SkyDrive, WebDAV, Azure.

Freemium Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet Mac

Portable File sync Multiple languages Support for WebDAV End to end encryption Real time sync Sync on Schedule Support for 64 bit Mirror Backup 2 way sync Direct P2P Sync Visual Comparison
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Synkron

Synkron is an application for folder synchronisation and folder-backups that allows you to configure your synchronisations in detail. Despite having many features, the user interface of Synkron is very user-friendly and easy to use.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Portable Multiple languages
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Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

File sync Bidirectional sync 2 way sync Well documented
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Bvckup 2

Simple fast backup for Windows.

Commercial Windows

Portable Support for FTP File Versioning Incremental backup Delta Backup Real time backup VSS compatible
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Allway Sync

Allway Sync is a file and folder synchronization software for Windows.

Freemium Windows

Portable File sync Multiple languages
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Déjà Dup

déjà dup is a simple backup tool. it hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regularly) and uses duplicity as the backend.

Free Open Source Linux

Encrypted backups Incremental backup Schedule Backup Well integrated in Debian 9
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Rclone

rsync for cloud storage. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from the cloud.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD NetBSD Solaris OpenBSD

File sync Cloud sync Lightweight Support for WebDAV
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Back In Time

back in time is a simple backup tool for linux inspired from flyback and "timevault". the backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.

Free Open Source Linux
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Areca Backup

Areca Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Multiple languages Support for FTP Encrypted backups Incremental backup Differential backup Delta Backup
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Create Synchronicity

Create Synchronicity is a nice, lightweight backup program with a very user-friendly - yet powerful - interface, that synchronizes files and folders extremely quickly (it can even recognize paths such as "MyUSB"\MyFolder, and...

Free Open Source Windows

Portable File sync Folder Comparison Mirror Backup Folder Mirroring
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Syncovery

Back up your data and synchronize PCs, Macs, servers, notebooks, and online storage space. You can set up as many different jobs as you need and run them manually or using the scheduler.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

File sync Encrypted backups Schedule Backup
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Robocopy

Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.

Free Windows

Portable Command Line support
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ChronoSync

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.

Commercial Mac OS X

File sync Cloud sync Disk Cloning Incremental backup Schedule Backup Backup on mount Bootable Backup
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grsync

Grsync is a rsync gui, a graphical user interface for the rsync file synchronization and backup tool. It works on linux, solaris, windows, mac os x and maemo. It uses the gtk libraries and can work under the gnome desktop.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce
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Veeam Endpoint Backup

Performs full system imaging, incremental backups, local and network backup locations, and bare metal recovery.

Free Windows

Disk Imaging Recover deleted files Incremental backup Recover lost data
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lsyncd

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.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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The Best 110 rsync Alternatives

FreeFileSync

Syncthing

SyncToy

SyncBack

GoodSync

Synkron

Unison

Bvckup 2

Allway Sync

Déjà Dup

Rclone

Back In Time

Areca Backup

Create Synchronicity

Syncovery

Robocopy

ChronoSync

grsync

Veeam Endpoint Backup

lsyncd

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