BorgBackup Alternatives

BorgBackup is described as '(short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption' and is a popular Backup Client in the backup & sync category. There are more than 25 alternatives to BorgBackup for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best BorgBackup alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BorgBackup are Restic, TimeShift, Acronis True Image and Kopia.

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  1. Veeam Agent icon
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    Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux work with Veeam Availability Suite to deliver Availability for ALL workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — from a single management console, extending Veeam’s leadership position from being the best for VMware vSphere...

    46 Veeam Agent alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Duplicity icon
     19 likes

    Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.

    35 Duplicity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. BorgWarehouse icon
     3 likes

    A fast and modern WebUI for a BorgBackup's central repository server.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Plakar icon
     5 likes

    An open-source backup and restore platform built for modern workloads. It offers encrypted, deduplicated, and instantly recoverable snapshots across file systems, object stores and cloud environments.

    21 Plakar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  5. Rustic icon
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    Rustic is a backup tool that provides fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups written in Rust. It reads and writes the restic repo format described in the design document and can be used as a restic replacement in most cases.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Minarca icon
     3 likes

    Self-hosted opensource software to backup all your data on Linux, Windows and Mac

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7.  1 like

    Bupstash is a tool for encrypted backups - if you need secure backups, Bupstash is the tool for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. BackupPC icon
     25 likes

    BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

    19 BackupPC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. BURP icon
     14 likes

    Burp is a network backup and restore program. It uses librsync in order to save network traffic and to save on the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make snapshots when backing up Windows computers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. rdiff-backup icon
     15 likes

    rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. BlinkDisk icon
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    A cross-platform folder backup software, based off a forked version of kopia. Since it uses kopia, you get end to end encryption with your own password.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12.  1 like

    Restic Robot is a small and simple wrapper application for Restic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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