Alternatives to Backup4all
A Windows backup program with full, incremental, differential and mirror backups to local and cloud storage. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Backup4all
A Windows backup program with full, incremental, differential and mirror backups to local and cloud storage.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Backup4all.
SyncBack
Windows backup and folder synchronization software with cloud storage, versioning and scripting support.
SyncBack is paid Windows software that adds two-way folder sync, scripting and file versioning alongside scheduled backups to cloud destinations, and it comes in several editions.
Cobian Reflector
Free scheduled file backup for Windows, successor to Cobian Backup.
Cobian Reflector is free with no feature restrictions, including encryption and FTP targets, and runs as a service, though releases are occasional and there is no disk imaging.
Iperius Backup
Windows backup for files, virtual machines, databases and cloud targets.
Iperius Backup has a free edition for straightforward file backup, and its paid editions add images, virtual machines and databases.
Uranium Backup
Windows backup software for files, databases, drive images and virtual machines, with a free edition.
Uranium Backup has a free edition and adds database, drive image, virtual machine and tape backups alongside full, incremental and differential file jobs.
Handy Backup
Windows backup software for files, emails, applications and databases, saved to local, network or cloud storage.
Handy Backup is paid after a trial and adds email, application and database backups, storing results as regular files so single items can be restored.
FBackup
Free Windows file backup with presets for common applications.
FBackup is free for personal and commercial use and offers application presets, but it lacks the incremental backups and disk imaging that Backup4all provides.
Duplicati
A backup client with a web interface that encrypts your files and pushes them to more than twenty cloud services.
Duplicati is free and open source with a web interface, encrypting incremental backups to many cloud services, and runs on macOS and Linux as well as Windows.
AOMEI Backupper
Windows backup and cloning tool with scheduled system and file jobs.
AOMEI Backupper has a free edition with scheduled incremental and differential jobs, and it adds system, disk and partition backup with a bootable rescue disc.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Backup4all as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Bvckup 2
A Windows backup utility that keeps one folder an exact, quickly updated copy of another.
Backup4all adds full, incremental and differential backups alongside mirror mode on Windows, with cloud destinations and a paid licence after a 30-day trial.
Syncovery
A file sync, backup and migration tool for local drives, network shares and cloud storage.
Backup4all provides full, incremental, differential and mirror backups to local and cloud storage, but it is Windows only and not a sync tool.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Windows File History
Built-in Windows tool that versions files to an external or network drive.
FastCopy
Fast Windows file copy and mirror tool with verification.
Macrium Reflect
Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore.
TeraCopy
Replaces the Windows copy dialog with a queue, verification and resume.
