BorgBackup VS others

Compare BorgBackup vs others and see what are their differences.

BorgBackup

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. (by borgbackup)

others

Exhaustive list of backup solutions for Linux (by restic)
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BorgBackup others
333 7
10,526 633
2.1% 1.9%
9.4 0.0
5 days ago 6 months ago
Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.

others

Posts with mentions or reviews of others. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-23.
  • Backup software
    2 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 23 Oct 2022
    Also see Restic's list of Linux backup software. https://github.com/restic/others
  • Restic 0.14.0 released with compression support
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 31 Aug 2022
  • Restic 0.13.0
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2022
    There is also https://github.com/restic/others which has some keywords (e.g. is it encrypted, does it do compression) for most FOSS backup solutions. It can be outdated or incomplete for some entries, though.
  • What free and open source backup software do you recommend that works on Windows?
    1 project | /r/freesoftware | 26 Dec 2021
    https://github.com/restic/others is a nice collection of free software links too - you can click through those and see if any are Windows supporting. But I'd personally just go with restic.
  • Backblaze for Personal Backup
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2021
    Backblaze is an awful piece of software when you look at it from “a backup software” point of view. It’s made pretty, simple, native (or is it Electron now?) - yes. But then it stops there. On top of that if you read there ifs, buts, and gotchas you’d want to stay far away from them.

    They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules.

    Besides I do not trust any service that promises to give anything “unlimited” for a fixed cost.

    As I usually mention in comments on this topic - I’d strongly urge people to use and support backup tools like borgbackup.org (Vorta is an excellent Borg GUI), restic.net (a GUI is glaringly missing), kopia.io (up and coming; promising; comes with a GUI), for smaller datasets there’s very good but more expansive Tarsnap (not FOSS).

    And then there are others - https://github.com/restic/others#list-of-backup-software

  • Restic: Backups Done Right
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2021
  • Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

Neo-Backup - backup manager for android

Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup

bupstash - Easy and efficient encrypted backups.

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)

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

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.

casync - Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool

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

tarsnap - Command-line client code for Tarsnap.