Bacula AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Backup Clients

The best open source Backup Client alternative to Bacula is Duplicati. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Bacula and six of them are open source Backup Clients so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Backup Client alternatives to Bacula are Déjà Dup, UrBackup, DirSync Pro and Toucan.

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Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

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Bacula alternatives page was last updated Mar 31, 2022
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  1. Duplicati icon
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    Duplicati

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    Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008.

    130 Duplicati alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Top Duplicati Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Automatic Backup
    4.  Encrypted Backup
    5.  Data deduplication
    6.  File Versioning
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Scheduling
    9.  Local Storage
    10.  Cloud Sync
    11.  AES-256 Encryption
    12.  Guided configuration
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  2. Déjà Dup icon
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    Déjà Dup

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    Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regularly) and uses Duplicity as the backend.

    88 Déjà Dup alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    Déjà Dup Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Incremental Backup
    4.  Remote backup
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Selective Synchronization
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    UrBackup

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    UrBackup is a open source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups accomplishes both data safety and a fast restoration time.

    42 UrBackup alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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    UrBackup Features

    1.  Automatic Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Incremental Backup
    4.  Multiuser mode support
    5.  Encrypted Backup
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    DirSync Pro

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    DirSync Pro is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. Java JRE 1.7 or above is needed to run DirSync Pro.

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    Basic

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    DirSync Pro Features

    1.  Incremental Backup
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Folder Sync
    4.  Tree view
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    Discontinued

    No activity/development anymore. Last stable version from 2018-03-07, last development version from 2018-12-28.

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    Toucan

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    Toucan is a small portableapp utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Toucan Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    2.  Incremental Backup
    3.  AES-256 Encryption
    4.  Portable
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Multiple languages
    7.  Folder Sync
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  7. Proxmox Backup Server icon
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    Proxmox Backup Server

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    Proxmox Backup Server is an enterprise backup solution, for backing up and restoring VMs, containers, and physical hosts. By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space.

    38 Proxmox Backup Server alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Debian

    Proxmox Backup Server Features

    1.  Encrypted Backup
    2.  Schedule Backup
    3.  Incremental Backup
    4.  Automatic Backup
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    • Proxmox Backup Server is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Bacula.

    • Proxmox Backup Server is Freemium and Open SourceBacula is Free Personal and Open Source
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