Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software

1. kopia

   1 242 13,413 9.6 Go

   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.

   

   Kopia is great, though it's worth noting for folks on Linux: non-UTF-8 paths aren't stored correctly [1] and xattrs aren't stored [2]. While most folks probably won't care about the former, the latter can could cause issues (eg. losing SELinux labels makes it difficult to restore a backup of the root filesystem on distros that use SELinux).

   [1] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1764

   [2] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/544

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3. BorgBackup

   2 346 13,418 9.8 Python

   Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

   

   Borg 2 has been in development for nearly a year and a half [1] and may probably be released early next year, i.e., early 2024 (just a guess, seeing that even RC1 is not yet released and seems to have a lot of work to be done).

   Does anyone know how Borg 1.x and 2 would compare to Kopia?

   [1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6602

4. bupstash

   3 11 926 1.3 Rust

   Easy and efficient encrypted backups.

   

   Bupstash (https://bupstash.io/) beats Borg and Kopia in my tests (see https://masysma.net/37/backup_tests_borg_bupstash_kopia.xhtm...). It is a modern take very close to what Borg offers regarding the feature set but has a significantly better performance (in terms of resource use for running tasks, the backups were slightly larger than Borg's in my tests).

5. npbackup

   4 3 336 9.7 Python

   A secure and efficient file backup solution that fits both system administrators (CLI) and end users (GUI)

   

   I'd be interested in comparison with:

   https://relicabackup.com/features

   https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup

   Which is my current short-list for cross platform backup...

6. restic

   5 382 34,357 9.6 Go

   Fast, secure, efficient backup program

   

   Can someone please help decide what is the "best" backup software?

   - Restic (https://restic.net/)

7. Duplicacy

   6 138 5,651 4.9 Go

   A new generation cloud backup tool

   

8. gitkurwa

   7 7 1,751 1.7 Shell

   A sample project containing usefull verbose aliases, for those who feel lost and angry at git. Basically for those Polish folks, who scream "Git, kurwa!".

   

   > as far as OSS names of Polish go, kopia is pretty tame

   Well indeed.

   There's a project on GitHub with 1.7k stars called GitKurwa[1].

   Now that's proper untame Polish. ;-)

   [1] https://github.com/jakubnabrdalik/gitkurwa

9. zfsnapr

   8 7 33 5.6 Ruby

   Recursive ZFS snapshot mounter

   

10. borgtui

    9 4 60 5.5 Rust

    A nice TUI for BorgBackup

    

    Personally I use borg with BorgTUI (https://github.com/dpbriggs/borgtui) to schedule backups and manage sources/repositories. I'm quite pleased with the simplicity of it compared to some of the other solutions.

11. borgmatic

    10 63 2,273 9.7 Python

    Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

    

    Not really dumb. I do use them too but with Borgbackup on the top (since they support it natively).

    I found Borgmatic ( https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ ) to be the best way to run my backups. It takes care of everything from pruning to verifying the checksum etc... and it integrates with some monitoring (like cronitor).

    So Borgmatic + rsync.net is the best combo

12. z3

    11 7 412 5.5 Python

    Backup your ZFS snapshots to S3. (by presslabs)

    

13. rclone-sync-zfs

    12 2 13 0.0 Shell

    atomic rclone of zfs dataset

    

14. RcloneZFSBackup

    13 2 4 0.0 Shell

    Backup ZFS snapshots to cloud storage using RCLone

    

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