Syncthing synchronizes files between two computers. It is licensed with the GNU Lesser Public License. Restoring files is easy, too, featuring an intuitive and simple command-line interface.Ĭasync is content-addressable synchronization-it's designed for backup and synchronizing and stores and retrieves multiple related versions of large file systems. This open source solution does reverse incremental backups-backing up only the files that changed since the previous backup. For the past two decades, rdiff-backup has helped Linux users maintain full backups of their data locally or remotely. As of 2019, however, this project is no longer being mainained, so I recommend rdiff-backup. It has clients for Windows, Linux, and MacOS and has a GNU Affero Public License. Second was UrBackup, which does full and incremental image and file backups you can save whole partitions or single directories. It is supported on Linux, MacOS, and BSD and has a BSD License. It is a deduplicating backup solution that features compression and encryption. And you came through, offering 13 other solutions (so far) that we either hadn't considered or hadn't even heard of.īy far the most popular suggestion was BorgBackup. We offered six solutions recommended by our moderator community-Cronopete, Deja Dup, Rclone, Rdiff-backup, Restic, and Rsync-and invited readers to share other options in the comments. Recently, we published a poll that asked readers to vote on their favorite open source backup solution.

Personal computer backup software