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Areca Backup

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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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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Platforms

  • Windows  Areca has been tested for Windows 2000, XP and Vista
  • Linux
Target definition
Compression
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Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

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  1.  Encrypted Backup
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Differential Backup
  4.  Incremental Backup
  5.  Multiple languages
  6.  Support for FTP
  7.  Delta Backup

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  • Developed by

    Olivier PETRUCCI

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    82 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Areca Backup, and it has gotten 36 likes

Areca Backup was added to AlternativeTo by tuvok4se on Mar 30, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 18, 2020. Areca Backup is sometimes referred to as Areca.

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Top negative comment •Oct 9, 2012

Areca Backup is not secure. It stores your encryption passwords as plain text in configuration files.

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em4020
Comment •Feb 7, 2011

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 icon Duplicati (2) Acronis True Image icon Acronis True Image (3) Personal Backup icon Personal Backup (4) SaftBackup icon SaftBackup

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denis12

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.

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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.

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