Open Source Déjà Dup Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Déjà Dup for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Linux alternative is Duplicati. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Déjà Dup and many of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to Déjà Dup are rsync, Timeshift, Restic and BorgBackup.

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  1. Plakar icon
     6 likes

    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 (ISC)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • OpenBSD
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  2. Minarca icon
     3 likes

    Self-hosted opensource software to backup all your data on Linux, Windows and Mac

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. Duplicity icon
     19 likes

    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

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. rdiff-backup icon
     15 likes

    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

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Cronopete icon
     7 likes

    Cronopete is a backup utility for Linux, modeled after Apple's Time Machine. It aims to simplify the creation of periodic backups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. BlinkDisk icon
     7 likes

    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

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  7. 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

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. Rsnapshot icon
     15 likes

    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

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. FSArchiver icon
     12 likes

    FSArchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a file system to a compressed archive file. The file system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file system.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Docker
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  11. Rustic icon
     4 likes

    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

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. Systemback icon
     10 likes

    Simple system backup and restore application with extra features. Systemback makes it easy to create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems you can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system.

    50 Systemback alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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