Open Source BorgBackup Alternatives for Windows

BorgBackup is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best open source Windows alternative is Duplicati. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to BorgBackup and 19 are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to BorgBackup are Restic, Kopia, UrBackup and BorgWarehouse.

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  1. Duplicati icon
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    Duplicati stores encrypted, incremental backups with AES-256 encryption and GPG, compatible with Windows, Linux, MacOS. Supports cloud services like OneDrive, Google Drive, and includes a built-in scheduler, auto-updater. Run backups through a web interface or command line.

    141 Duplicati alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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  2. Restic icon
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    restic is a program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free.

    66 Restic alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  3. Kopia icon
     40 likes

    Kopia is a fast and secure open-source backup/restore tool that manages filesystem snapshots in a remote storage. It features client-side encryption, compression, backup policies. command-line interface and more.

    20 Kopia alternatives

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  4. UrBackup icon
     39 likes

    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.

    52 UrBackup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
     
  5. BorgWarehouse icon
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    A fast and modern WebUI for a BorgBackup's central repository server.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Rustic icon
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    Rustic is a backup tool that provides fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups written in Rust. It reads and writes the restic repo format described in the design document and can be used as a restic replacement in most cases.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Minarca icon
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    Self-hosted opensource software to backup all your data on Linux, Windows and Mac

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. BackupPC icon
     25 likes

    BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. BURP icon
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    Burp is a network backup and restore program. It uses librsync in order to save network traffic and to save on the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make snapshots when backing up Windows computers.

    11 BURP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. BlinkDisk icon
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    A cross-platform folder backup software, based off a forked version of kopia. Since it uses kopia, you get end to end encryption with your own password.

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    • Mac
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  11. rdiff-backup icon
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    rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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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