During my (@fd0) research before starting restic I've tested a lot of different backup programs. However, even after working in this space for a few years, I still stumble across backup solutions I didn't know about.

In this repository, I'd like to collect backup solutions and eventually end up with an exhaustive list of backup software. The criteria for inclusion are:

• Free Software (not just Open Source)
• Does not require custom network/cloud service to operate (sorry, tarsnap)
• Works on Linux
• Is a dedicated to backup (sorry, camlistore)

If you know other backup solutions that fit the criteria above, please create a pull request!

A lot of FOSS backup solutions are merely shells on top of rsync and/or duplicity. Perhaps these should have a category of their own, or a tag?

In the future we plan to provide benchmarks using fakedatafs and a table to sort by the tag categories.

If anyone wants to help out, please submit a PR with your contribution.

Tags used below:

• authenticated: Uses cryptographic signatures or MAC tags to ensure integrity
• compression: Storage with compression
• dedup: Supports deduplication
• encrypted: Supports encrypting data locally (stored encrypted on the backup medium)
• error-correction: Supports reconstructing data in scenarios x-of-n backup media are lost
• golang: Written in Go-lang
• gpg: Uses GPG for the underlying encryption
• incremental: Support for incremental backups (through deltas or local deduplication)
• perl: Written in Perl
• python: Written in Python
• review: Needs to be reviewed by the authors of this list in order to revise the tags assigned here.
• rsync: Uses rsync or librsync
• rust: Written in Rust
• s3: Supports Amazon S3-compatible backends
• ssh: Supports SFTP/SCP backends
• unmaintained: Looks unmaintained / dead

The following list is sorted alphabetically:

List of wrappers or helper tools:

• atticmatic review,attic,borg
• backupninja borg(WIP),bup,duplicity,dsync,rdiff-backup,restic(WIP),rsnapshot,rsync,tar
• deja-dup review,duplicity