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, Self-Hosted and BSD 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. ZBackup icon
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    ZBackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Kup is created for helping people to keep up-to-date backups of their personal files. Connecting a USB hard drive is the primary supported way to store files, but saving files to a server over a network connection is also possible for advanced users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. BmuS icon
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    BmuS is a powerful free backup program for the automated backup of files, directories, and MySQL databases from a Linux, Mac, Windows system to a NAS or network drive or from a NAS to another NAS. It features a dashboard, encryption, cloud backup deduplication, and much more. Docker ready.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  4. DAR icon
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    dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Emborg icon
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    Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg, a powerful and fast deduplicating backup program. With Emborg, you specify all the details about your backups once in advance, and then use a very simple command line interface...

    29 Emborg alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Arco is a desktop backup application that brings the power of Borg Backup to everyone through a clean, intuitive interface.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. Rsnapshot icon
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    rsnapshot is a rsync based backup utillity, providing filesystem snapshot functionality. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.

    42 Rsnapshot alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8.  4 likes

    Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
     
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    Snebu -- Simple Network Backup Utility An easy to set up and use snapshot-style backup system for Linux. Each backup is a full snapshot of your system, classified with a retention schedule (such as daily, weekly, monthly, etc). Individual backups can be manually expired, or exp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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  10. Backer icon
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    Backer is a visual front end to the rsync command. It allows the user to select multiple folders and back them up to multiple locations. It stores your backup settings for you so that all your backups can be run easily using a single button click.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Elkarbackup icon
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    ElkarBackup will help you securing your company data. Manage all your backups from a single place, with an easy-to-use web interface!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Fast, affordable and top-rated backup and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments.

    9 NAKIVO Backup & Replication alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
    • Amazon Simple Storage Service
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft 365 (Office)
    • Oracle Database
    • TrueNAS
    • Microsoft Azure
     
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