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, Self-Hosted and BSD 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. 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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  2. BmuS icon
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    BmuS is a powerful free backup program for the automated backup of files, directories, and MySQL databases from a Linux, Mac, Windows system to a NAS or network drive or from a NAS to another NAS. It features a dashboard, encryption, cloud backup deduplication, and much more. Docker ready.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
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  3. Kup is created for helping people to keep up-to-date backups of their personal files. Connecting a USB hard drive is the primary supported way to store files, but saving files to a server over a network connection is also possible for advanced users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. DAR icon
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    dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Arco is a desktop backup application that brings the power of Borg Backup to everyone through a clean, intuitive interface.

    16 Arco Backup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. VaultSync icon
     3 likes

    Open-source backup and snapshot manager focused on reliable backups to NAS, network storage and local drives with clear visibility into changes and backup history.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  7. Self-hosted web GUI and centralized management dashboard for BorgBackup. Schedule, monitor, and restore backups across multiple servers from a single web interface with agent-based architecture. Works with Docker and/or Bare Metal. Supports Mac, Linux and Windows clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Docker Hub
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  8. Emborg icon
     4 likes

    Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg, a powerful and fast deduplicating backup program. With Emborg, you specify all the details about your backups once in advance, and then use a very simple command line interface...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Rsnapshot icon
     15 likes

    rsnapshot is a rsync based backup utillity, providing filesystem snapshot functionality. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10.  4 likes

    Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
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    Snebu -- Simple Network Backup Utility An easy to set up and use snapshot-style backup system for Linux. Each backup is a full snapshot of your system, classified with a retention schedule (such as daily, weekly, monthly, etc). Individual backups can be manually expired, or exp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. KBackup icon
     4 likes

    KBackup is an application which lets you back up your data in a simple, user friendly way

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
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