BorgBackup Alternatives

BorgBackup is described as '(short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption' and is a popular Backup Client in the backup & sync category. There are more than 25 alternatives to BorgBackup for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best BorgBackup alternative is Duplicati, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BorgBackup are Restic, TimeShift, Acronis True Image and Kopia.

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  1. Veeam Agent icon
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    Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux work with Veeam Availability Suite to deliver Availability for ALL workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — from a single management console, extending Veeam’s leadership position from being the best for VMware vSphere...

    46 Veeam Agent alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Duplicity icon
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    Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Plakar icon
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    An open-source backup and restore platform built for modern workloads. It offers encrypted, deduplicated, and instantly recoverable snapshots across file systems, object stores and cloud environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  4. Minarca icon
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    Self-hosted opensource software to backup all your data on Linux, Windows and Mac

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Bupstash is a tool for encrypted backups - if you need secure backups, Bupstash is the tool for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. BackupPC icon
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    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
     
    • BackupPC is the most popular Web-based alternative to BorgBackup.

    • BackupPC is Free and Open SourceBorgBackup is also Free and Open Source
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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.

    80 rdiff-backup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Restic Robot is a small and simple wrapper application for Restic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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