Alternatives to Duplicati
A backup client with a web interface that encrypts your files and pushes them to more than twenty cloud services. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Duplicati
A backup client with a web interface that encrypts your files and pushes them to more than twenty cloud services.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Duplicati.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
Moving to restic trades Duplicati's web interface and built-in scheduler for a single command-line binary with encrypted deduplicated snapshots, relying on third-party projects for scheduling and a graphical interface.
Kopia
An encrypted snapshot backup tool with both a command line and a proper desktop app, pointed at whatever storage you choose.
Kopia offers a desktop app and command line sharing one repository format, with encryption, compression and deduplication, but it is still pre-1.0 so repository format changes are possible.
Duplicacy
A deduplicating cloud backup tool whose lock-free design lets several machines share one storage bucket.
Duplicacy lets several machines share deduplicated data in one cloud bucket, but its licence is not open source and the web interface and commercial use are paid.
Arq
Encrypted backup software for Mac and Windows that stores backups in your own cloud account or disk.
Arq is paid, closed-source software for Mac and Windows only, offering end-to-end encrypted snapshot backups to your own cloud account or disk with a documented data format.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
BorgBackup is command-line only and primarily a Unix tool without a native Windows build, backing up over SSH with deduplication and authenticated encryption instead of many cloud services.
MSP360 Backup Free
Free backup software for personal computers that sends files to local drives, network shares or cloud storage.
MSP360 Backup Free is closed-source freemium software for personal use only, supporting local disks, network shares and S3-compatible clouds, and adding image-based backups on Windows.
Duplicity
Encrypted, bandwidth-efficient incremental backup to remote storage.
Duplicity is a command-line tool for macOS and Linux with encrypted incremental backups to many remote back ends, but long incremental chains require periodic full backups.
Déjà Dup
GNOME's backup app: pick folders and a destination, and it handles encryption, scheduling and versions for you.
Déjà Dup is a Linux and GNOME only app with minimal configuration, using Restic underneath for encrypted scheduled home folder backups to local, network or cloud destinations.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Duplicati as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Apple Time Machine
Built-in macOS backup tool that takes hourly snapshots automatically.
Duplicati is free MIT-licensed software with a web interface that encrypts backups and pushes them to many cloud services on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Backblaze Computer Backup
Unlimited automatic cloud backup for a single Mac or Windows PC at a flat monthly price.
Duplicati is free MIT-licensed software that encrypts backups and pushes them to a cloud account you already have, including on Linux.
Backrest
Schedule and restore restic backups through a browser interface.
Duplicati has its own web interface and scheduler, encrypting backups to many cloud services without needing restic underneath.
Carbonite
Automatic, encrypted cloud backup service for personal computers with unlimited storage and file restoration.
Duplicati is free MIT-licensed software that encrypts files and pushes them to a cloud account you already have, including on Linux.
Cobian Reflector
Free scheduled file backup for Windows, successor to Cobian Backup.
Duplicati is MIT-licensed open source with a web interface, encrypting backups to many cloud services on Windows, macOS and Linux.
FBackup
Free Windows file backup with presets for common applications.
Duplicati is open source under MIT with incremental encrypted backups to many cloud services and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
rustic
Create encrypted, deduplicated backups in restic-compatible repositories.
Duplicati replaces the command line with a web interface and built-in scheduler, uses an MIT licence, and can be slow restoring very large backup sets.
Vorta
A desktop front end for BorgBackup, so encrypted deduplicated backups stop being a cron job.
Duplicati is an MIT-licensed client with a web interface and more than twenty cloud destinations on Windows, macOS and Linux, though restores of very large sets can be slow.
Windows File History
Built-in Windows tool that versions files to an external or network drive.
Duplicati is open source under MIT with AES-256 encryption and more than twenty cloud destinations, running on Windows, macOS and Linux through a local web interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
FreeFileSync
Compares two folders, shows exactly what differs, and copies only what changed.
IDrive
Cloud backup service that protects multiple computers, phones and servers under one account.
