freezegun VS BorgBackup

Compare freezegun vs BorgBackup and see what are their differences.

freezegun

Let your Python tests travel through time (by spulec)

BorgBackup

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. (by borgbackup)
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freezegun BorgBackup
9 333
3,969 10,506
- 1.7%
6.7 9.5
2 days ago 12 days ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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freezegun

Posts with mentions or reviews of freezegun. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.

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 freezegun and BorgBackup you can also consider the following projects:

time-machine - Travel through time in your tests.

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

python-libfaketime - A fast time mocking alternative to freezegun that wraps libfaketime.

Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup

Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.

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)

VCR.py - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module

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.

mock - The Python mock library

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