borg VS restic

Compare borg vs restic and see what are their differences.

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borg restic
- 357
1,600 23,706
0.0% 2.9%
0.0 9.7
about 6 years ago 7 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.

borg

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning borg yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

restic

Posts with mentions or reviews of restic. 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 borg and restic you can also consider the following projects:

syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

ipe - An open source Pusher server implementation compatible with Pusher client libraries written in GO

Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup

fleet

kopia - Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.

Juju - Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).

Comcast - Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems.

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)