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Top 23 Go Backup Projects
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# Installation on Linux wget https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/download/v0.16.2/restic_0.16.2_linux_amd64.bz2 bzip2 -d restic_0.16.2_linux_amd64.bz2 mv restic_0.16.2_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/restic chmod +x /usr/local/bin/restic
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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.
There are actually really good free backup solutions, like https://kopia.io/
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wget https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero/releases/download/v1.18.0/velero-v1.18.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz tar -xvf velero-v1.18.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz sudo cp velero-v1.18.0-linux-amd64/velero /usr/local/bin/ velero version
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Project mention: PostgreSQL backup tool Databasus released backup verification in real database Docker containers | dev.to | 2026-05-21
Databasus is a free, open source and self-hosted backup tool, and it has become an industry standard for PostgreSQL backups. It is Apache 2.0 licensed, with more than 600,000 Docker pulls, around 7,000 GitHub stars and over 30 contributors. Restore verification ships in the same open source build as everything else, with no paid tier and no feature gate, and the code is all on GitHub.
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docker-volume-backup
Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3, WebDAV, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive or SSH compatible storage
Project mention: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-10You may want to have a look at docker-volume-backup[1]. I personally use it.
[1]: https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup/
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Project mention: SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-04
> Backups are cp production.sqlite3 backup.sqlite3
I use gobackup[0] as another container in compose.yml file which can backup to multiple locations.
[0]: https://gobackup.github.io/
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slackdump
Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.
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Anyone looking for an alternative can try UFO Backup aka pgbackweb https://github.com/eduardolat/pgbackweb
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clickhouse-backup
Tool for easy backup and restore for ClickHouse® using object storage for backup files.
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For Restic: Use Resticprofile, Autorestic, or simple cron/systemd timers.
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Project mention: 3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS to Hetzner | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-17
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kstone
Kstone is an etcd management platform, providing cluster management, monitoring, backup, inspection, data migration, visual viewing of etcd data, and intelligent diagnosis.
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gemini
Automated backups of PersistentVolumeClaims in Kubernetes using VolumeSnapshots (by FairwindsOps)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go Backup discussion
Go Backup related posts
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Engineering and security approaches used in open-source PostgreSQL backup tool Databasus
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Docker Volume Backup Strategies on My Own VPS
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Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
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Databasus: Free, open source tool to backup PostgreSQL
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Backup projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | restic | 34,357 |
| 2 | kopia | 13,413 |
| 3 | velero | 10,043 |
| 4 | databasus | 7,300 |
| 5 | wal-g | 4,111 |
| 6 | docker-volume-backup | 3,706 |
| 7 | gobackup | 2,696 |
| 8 | slackdump | 2,634 |
| 9 | pgbackweb | 2,586 |
| 10 | pv-migrate | 2,322 |
| 11 | autorestic | 1,835 |
| 12 | clickhouse-backup | 1,612 |
| 13 | gickup | 1,384 |
| 14 | resticprofile | 1,322 |
| 15 | zrepl | 1,141 |
| 16 | mariadb-operator | 983 |
| 17 | k8up | 980 |
| 18 | onedump | 968 |
| 19 | kstone | 692 |
| 20 | Walrus | 547 |
| 21 | knoxite | 493 |
| 22 | gemini | 434 |
| 23 | gdg | 427 |
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