Alternatives to Synology Hyper Backup
Backup app for Synology NAS systems with scheduling, versioning and many local and cloud destinations. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Synology Hyper Backup
Backup app for Synology NAS systems with scheduling, versioning and many local and cloud destinations.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Synology Hyper Backup.
QNAP Hybrid Backup Sync
A QNAP NAS app for backing up, restoring and syncing data across local, remote and cloud storage.
QNAP Hybrid Backup Sync is the equivalent free app for QNAP NAS devices, backing up and syncing to local, remote and cloud destinations with deduplication, tied to QNAP hardware.
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 under MIT, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux rather than a Synology NAS, and encrypts incremental backups to many cloud services.
Kopia
An encrypted snapshot backup tool with both a command line and a proper desktop app, pointed at whatever storage you choose.
Kopia is free and open source under Apache-2.0, with encrypted deduplicated snapshots to cloud, network or local storage from a desktop app or command line on any major OS.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
restic is a free, open-source single binary for encrypted deduplicated snapshots to local, SFTP and S3-compatible storage, but it is command line only with third-party scheduling.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
BorgBackup is free and open source, making encrypted deduplicated archives over SSH on Linux, macOS and BSD, but it is command line only without built-in scheduling.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Synology Active Backup for Business
A Synology NAS package that backs up PCs, Macs, servers and virtual machines from one console.
Synology Drive
A file sync and sharing package for Synology NAS devices, with desktop and mobile clients.
Synology Photos
A photo library app for Synology NAS devices, with mobile apps that back up phone photos.
BorgBase
A hosted storage service for BorgBackup and Restic repositories with monitoring and append-only mode.
TrueNAS Community Edition
A free Linux-based storage operating system built on OpenZFS, with Docker apps and virtualization.
Unraid
A paid home server operating system combining NAS storage, Docker containers and virtual machines.
