BorgBackup

BorgBackup is a backup program that provides data deduplication by content-based fragmentation method. It offers optional data compression and 256-bit authentication encryption features. Performance critical sections have been developed with C and Cython, improving storage efficiency by storing only changing data blocks.

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borgbackup · Backup & Recovery

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BackupDeduplicationEncryptionpythonBSD-2-Clause

Common commercial products in this category: Veeam, Acronis, Backblaze

What can it do?
  • Thanks to content-based deduplication, you save disk space just by storing changing data blocks.
  • Using 256-bit authentication encryption on the client side, you back up your data to unsafe targets.
  • Even if file names or locations change, you continue the backup process by breaking the data into pieces.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

    “I'll use Restic or BorgBackup for servers, but ended up going with Kopia for machines that are not always on, like laptops. It has the advantage that it will take something of an opportunistic approach where it will start backing up if it hasn't done so in a while, and seems to…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

    “Vorta (GUI for BorgBackup) will also opportunistically backup if it's overdue for a backup.”

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