BorgBackup
BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Arch Linux
- Fedora
- Cygwin
- Ubuntu
- Debian
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Data deduplication
- Incremental Backup
- Remote backup
- Automatic Backup
- Encrypted Backup
- Schedule Backup
- AES-256 Encryption
- End-to-End Encryption
Tags
- Encryption
- Deduplicated Backup
- compressed-dir
- Backup and Restore
BorgBackup News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about BorgBackup
BorgBackup 2.0 now supports Rclone with over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSHBorgBackup has released version 2.0.0b11, introducing several new features and improvements to its ...
Recent activities
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What is BorgBackup?
BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.
The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.
BorgBackup information
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Rating
Average rating of 4.3Alternatives
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- English
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- 373 Open Issues
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Comments and Reviews
A very user friendly command-line interface, and encrypts all data and separates data into de-duplicated blocks
The entry point too high for using this software. duply.net or resic much easier to understand for use. But can say nothing bad about the tool neither.
Perfect for command line on a server. You don't need to install mono or other additional framework (like with duplicati) so the install is very small. Encrypted incremental backups works great!
You might need your local tech-friend to get you up and running (especially on Windows), but borg works great in every aspect and can be used with Vorta to make it accessible to everyone. Reliable backups are essential!
On the first view Borg looks pretty hard to configure but eventually the setup works fast and the usage is pretty easy. Encryption, Backup over SSH and incremental Backups. Prefer it over rsnapshot or Veeam
To me like the best backup software for Linux / Unix.
Borg backup is great! Currently it is stable enough and saves me tons of hard disk space on each full backup due to deduplication.