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Top 9 PowerShell Backup Projects

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  1. dbatools

    🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer

  2. Kargo

    Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

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  3. EntraExporter

    PowerShell module to export a local copy of an Entra (Azure AD) tenant configuration.

  4. RanSim

    Ransomware simulation script written in PowerShell. Useful for testing your defenses and backups against real ransomware-like activity in a controlled setting.

  5. PlexBackup

    PowerShell script for backing up and restoring Plex Media Server application data on Windows.

  6. Backup-Scripts

    Unofficial Scripts and Automation for N-able Cove Data Protection. Please visit https://developer.n-able.com/n-able-cove/recipes for N-able hosted API, script and recipe examples.

  7. Astroneer-Backup

    Automated backup for Astroneer saves

  8. PSBackupUtil

    Make Full & Partial Disk-to-Disk Archives.

  9. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  10. SmartTAR - STAR 1.4.0

    SmartTAR STAR is a Windows PowerShell GUI archiver that creates transparent TAR-based .star containers using Windows tar.exe / bsdtar. It supports block manifests, SHA-256 verification, content-aware compression planning, dedup alias restore, and salvage-friendly extraction.

    Project mention: SmartTAR – Star 1.3.1 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-18

  11. WinZSTD 1.2.1

    Native Windows TAR/ZSTD GUI powered by Windows tar.exe. No external binaries.

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).

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  • SmartTAR – Star 1.3.1

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2026

  • SmartTAR – Star 1.3.0

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2026

  • SmartTAR 1.3.0

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2026

  • Free GitHub Backup, 2 commands (read-only, restore with plain Git)

    1 project | dev.to | 5 Nov 2025

  • N-Central / Cove / Speedvault down for weeks - no alarms, notices, etc

    1 project | /r/Nable | 29 Jun 2023

  • Cove API

    1 project | /r/Nable | 4 Dec 2022

  • List of recent backups and status via API?

    1 project | /r/Nable | 23 Nov 2022
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Backup projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 dbatools 2,829
2 EntraExporter 878
3 RanSim 245
4 PlexBackup 204
5 Backup-Scripts 72
6 Astroneer-Backup 16
7 PSBackupUtil 6
8 SmartTAR - STAR 1.4.0 3
9 WinZSTD 1.2.1 2

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