Barman VS BorgBackup

Compare Barman vs BorgBackup and see what are their differences.

Barman

Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (by 2ndquadrant-it)

BorgBackup

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. (by borgbackup)
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Barman BorgBackup
1 333
1,836 10,506
2.2% 2.0%
8.6 9.5
8 days ago 18 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Barman

Posts with mentions or reviews of Barman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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 Barman and BorgBackup you can also consider the following projects:

pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

Bareos - Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

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)

Lsyncd - Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

backy2 - backy2: Deduplicating block based backup software for ceph/rbd, image files and devices

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.

Elkarbackup - Open source backup solution for your network

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