Borg Backup

    Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption

    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Cygwin
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
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    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.
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    vlad123
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    • Top positive comment  about 5 years ago • 0 replies
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    Borg backup is great!
    Currently it is stable enough and saves me tons of hard disk space on each full backup due to deduplication.

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    WalrusTusks
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    • Top positive comment  over 1 year ago • 0 replies
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    A very user friendly command-line interface, and encrypts all data and separates data into de-duplicated blocks

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    insidesystem
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    • Top negative comment  about 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    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.

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    bleaktradition
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    • Positive comment • about 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    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

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    karlblass
    Comment • about 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    To me like the best backup software for Linux / Unix.

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    Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Borg Backup, and it has gotten 32 likes

    • Open Source and Free product.
    • Average rating of 3.8
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    Borg Backup was added to AlternativeTo by mquinton on Sep 16, 2015 and this page was last updated Apr 22, 2021. Borg Backup is sometimes referred to as Borg.

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