Areca Backup
Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups.
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Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/
Features
- Encrypted Backup
- Command line interface
- Differential Backup
- Incremental Backup
- Multiple languages
- Support for FTP
- Delta Backup
Tags
- compressed-backup
- Backup
- File Backup
Areca Backup News & Activities
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Areca Backup information
Developed by
Olivier PETRUCCI Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
What is Areca Backup?
Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups. It also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.
Areca Backup is also able to trigger additional actions, like storing a backup report on your hard drive, sending it by email, launching shell scripts before or after your backup.
Comments and Reviews
Areca Backup is not secure. It stores your encryption passwords as plain text in configuration files.
For the file/folder-backup Duplicati is the best free app For a good backup functionality is is necessary to cleanup more/older than x backups (CLU) not only older backups than x months, and to configure the schedule of a backup also for each 2nd Monday 10:00 and to pause if the system is busy (Sch). Comparison of file/folder backup applications: Comparison ...... CLU . Sch . Lang SyncBack Free...... No ... Yes .. English only Cobian Backup .. Yes .. No ... Many Acronis True Im.. Yes .. Yes .. Many Duplicati ...............Yes .. Yes .. Dan.En.Fr.Port. Areca Backup ..... No .. Yes .. English only Personal Backup No .. Yes .. Engl.+German Saft Backup .........Yes .. No .. Engl.+German
Duplicati (1) is the best free backup application. Acronis True Image (2) has all necessary functions, has multi-language UI and additionally can do harddisk images with best functions, but it is not free. In difference to Duplicati Saft Backup can do backups with volume shadow copy (VSS), but cannot do a backup on each second Monday and has no flexible file filter. (1)
Duplicati
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Acronis True Image
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Personal Backup
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SaftBackup
Hello, I think Duplicati can do backups with volume shadow copy (VSS)... I use the (very) old version 1.3.4, and can do this; so I think that newer versions can do this all the same.