Areca Backup

Name: Areca Backup
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)

Areca Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers.

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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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Discontinued

Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

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Areca Backup Features

Encrypted BackupAreca Backup uses encryption algorithms to keep your files safe as well as prevent unauthorized access.
Command line interfaceAreca Backup either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Differential BackupAreca Backup supports differential backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last FULL backup).
Incremental BackupAreca Backup supports incremental backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last backup).

Areca Backup information

Developed byOlivier PETRUCCI
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
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Supported Languages

English

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

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em4020

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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 Cyber Protect Home Office (3) Personal Backup icon Personal Backup (4) SaftBackup icon SaftBackup

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Areca Backup platform details

Windows

Areca has been tested for Windows 2000, XP and Vista

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