Backrest review: encrypted backups you schedule
Backrest is a free open-source backup web UI for restic. See how it encrypts files, where copies live, and whether it suits your own computer.
Backrest is a free open-source backup web UI for restic. See how it encrypts files, where copies live, and whether it suits your own computer.
Duplicati is free open-source backup software. It encrypts files before they are uploaded, runs on a schedule, and stores copies in a place you choose.
Vorta is free open-source backup software for Linux and Mac. Learn how encryption, storage choices and recovery work before setting up your backups.
Restic makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them to a local folder, SFTP, or object storage such as Backblaze B2 and S3. It is a single program, written in Go, and the same binary runs on the major desktops. The repository format is restic’s, not a pile of zip files you can open by […]
Kopia does encrypted, deduplicated snapshots, like Restic, and it also ships a graphical window and a server mode. Backends include local disks and the usual cloud buckets. It is open source and cross-platform. People who will not live in a terminal can start here. The project is younger than Borg. The GUI hides choices you […]
BorgBackup stores encrypted, deduplicated, compressed archives on a disk or a server you control. The tool is aimed at people who will use a terminal. Daily backups stay small because unchanged chunks are not stored again. You can prune old archives and still restore a file from last month. Borg wants Borg on the far […]
Syncthing keeps folders the same across computers you own. The devices talk to each other, encrypted, with no account and no company in the middle. It is open source. You approve each device. After that, changes flow. A delete flows too. Syncthing is not a backup. If ransomware encrypts the folder on one machine, the […]
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