Backup VS BorgBackup

Compare Backup vs BorgBackup and see what are their differences.

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Backup BorgBackup
3 333
4,816 10,506
0.1% 1.7%
4.0 9.5
about 1 month ago 12 days ago
Ruby Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Backup

Posts with mentions or reviews of Backup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-21.

BorgBackup

Posts with mentions or reviews of BorgBackup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Backup and BorgBackup you can also consider the following projects:

TimeShift - System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

Kup Backup System - A backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop

Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup

Rsnapshot - a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

Dpl - Dpl (dee-pee-ell) is a deploy tool made for continuous deployment.

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Back In Time - Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back

UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux