Best Open Source Backup Software 2025 (original) (raw)

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  Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.)
  
  Downloads: 102,291 This Week
  Last Update: 2021-04-08
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  Clonezilla
  A partition and disk imaging/cloning program
  Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).
  
  Downloads: 39,951 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-12-03
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  OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge.
  
  Downloads: 21,050 This Week
  Last Update: 13 hours ago
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  7-Zip
  A free file archiver for extremely high compression
  7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip works in Windows 11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. And there is command line version for Linux and macOS. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license with GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check the license for details.
  
  Downloads: 9,900 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-08-03
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  Grafana: The open and composable observability platform
  Faster answers, predictable costs, and no lock-in built by the team helping to make observability accessible to anyone.
  Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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  p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines.
  
  Downloads: 3,003 This Week
  Last Update: 2016-07-14
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  Redo Rescue Backup and Recovery can backup and restore an entire system in minutes with a point-and-click interface anyone can use. Bare metal restore to a new, blank drive and be up and running in minutes. Supports saving to and restoring from local disks or shared network drives. Selectively restore partitions and remap them to different locations on the target drive. Additional tools included for partition editing, web browsing, and more. Runs from live CD/USB; no installation needed. Website: http://redorescue.com Forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/redobackup/discussion/ GitHub: https://github.com/redorescue/redorescue Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redo\_Backup\_and\_Recovery
  
  Downloads: 973 This Week
  Last Update: 2021-10-09
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  Fast and user-friendly free tool for drivers's backup, restoration and removal with command line options, automatic restoration from CD\DVD and path formatting. DriverBackup! includes also an interactive command line builder.
  
  Downloads: 741 This Week
  Last Update: 2016-08-26
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  RoboMirror's aim is to provide a very simple and user-centered GUI for Robocopy to allow for easy synchronization of two directory trees, e.g., to perform a robust incremental backup, both locally (e.g., to an external hard disk) and across the network. Additionally, RoboMirror supports volume shadow copies. By using shadow copies, all files can be copied, including files locked by running processes (Outlook, SQL Server...).
  
  Downloads: 397 This Week
  Last Update: 2014-08-24
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  FreeArc combines best 7-zip and RAR features: auto-selected LZMA/PPMD/Multimedia compression, 1gb dictionary, exe/dict/delta data filters, updatable solid archives, SFXes, recovery record, AES+Twofish+Serpent encryption, Linux support and much more...
  
  Downloads: 451 This Week
  Last Update: 2013-04-03
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  DAR is a command-line backup and archiving tool that uses selective compression (not compressing already compressed files), strong encryption, may split an archive in different files of given size and provides on-fly hashing, supports differential backup with or without binary delta, ftp and sftp protocols to remote cloud storage Archive internal's catalog, allows very quick restoration even a single file from a huge, eventually sliced, compressed, encrypted archive eventually located on a remote cloud storage, by only reading/fetching the necessary data to perform the operation. Dar saves *all* UNIX inode types, takes care of hard links, sparse files as well as Extended Attributes (MacOS X file forks, Linux ACL, SELinux tags, user attributes) and some Filesystem Specific Attributes (Linux ext2/3/4, Mac OS X HFS+) more details at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html
  
  Downloads: 245 This Week
  Last Update: 5 days ago
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  restic
  Fast, secure and efficient backup program
  Restic is a backup program that is designed to be easy to use, fast, secure and efficient. It makes doing backups a fast and frictionless process, so you can backup your files every day if you need to. It supports backends for storing backups natively, including on the local directory, sftp server (via SSH), HTTP REST server (protocol rest server), OpenStack Swift, among many others. It also uses cryptography to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your data. Restic supports Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
  Downloads: 35 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-09-21
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  Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.
  
  Downloads: 176 This Week
  Last Update: 2015-08-26
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  Openfiler is a browser-based network storage management utility. Linux-powered, Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) and block-based SAN in a single framework. It supports CIFS, NFS, HTTP/DAV, FTP, and iSCSI.
  
  Downloads: 201 This Week
  Last Update: 2015-06-27
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  SMS Backup+
  Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
  This is a fork of the now-defunct Android backup tool SMS Backup. It uses Gmail/IMAP to perform SMS, MMS and call log backups over the network. It is important that you perform the first backup manually. SMS Backup+ needs to know whether you want to upload messages currently stored on your device or not. SMS Backup+ can also backup and restore your call logs. It stores all calls using a separate label (defaults to Call log, but can be changed in "Advanced settings"). If you wish you can set this to the same value as SMS, to make all backups use the same label.
  Downloads: 31 This Week
  Last Update: 2023-08-16
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  Duply is a shell front end for the duplicity backup tool https://duplicity.us . It simplifies the usage by implementing backup job profiles, batch commands and more. Secure backup to non-trusted file spaces made easy.
  
  Downloads: 122 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-08-29
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  luckyBackup
  ...a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool.
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ windows users, note that luckybackup is originally developed for linux and the windows port (version) is under heavy development at the moment. Feedback is more than welcome and will be appreciated, but please consider the above before you provide a negative review. windows dedicated forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/luckybackup/discussion/2264489/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
  Downloads: 88 This Week
  Last Update: 2018-11-05
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  FreeFileSync
  Free data backup software to synchronize files and folders
  FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software that helps you synchronize files and synchronize folders for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is designed to save your time setting up and running data backups while having nice visual feedback along the way. _______________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD LINKS (official homepage): https://freefilesync.org/
  Downloads: 89 This Week
  Last Update: 2023-11-21
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  Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Based on Source Forge downloads, Bacula is the most popular Open Source backup program.
  
  Downloads: 492 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-03-27
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  BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade backup system for backing up Linux, WinXX PCs, Macs and laptops to a server's disk. Features include clever pooling of identical files, no client-side software, and a powerful Apache/CGI user interface.
  
  Downloads: 65 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-11-13
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  AutoMySQLBackup with a basic configuration will create Daily, Weekly and Monthly backups of one or more of your MySQL databases from one or more of your MySQL servers. Other Features include: - Email notification of backups - Backup Compression and Encryption - Configurable backup rotation - Incremental database backups Time for a new maintainer.. I first created AutoMySQLBackup in 2002 and since then it's helped many thousands of admins keep their databases backed up.. I always had one basic requirement and that was that it should always be super simple to initially get working.. I would like to hand it over now to someone with the time and skill to keep it updated and take it further.. If you would like to take over the project please get in touch..
  
  Downloads: 62 This Week
  Last Update: 2019-07-20
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  Back In Time
  An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
  Back In Time is an easy-to-use tool to backup files and folders. It runs on GNU Linux (not on Windows or OS X/macOS) and provides a command line tool backintime and a GUI backintime-qt both written in Python3. It uses rsync to take manual or scheduled snapshots and stores them locally or remotely through SSH. Each snapshot is in its own folder with copies of the original files, but unchanged files are hard-linked between snapshots to save storage space. It was inspired by FlyBack.
  Downloads: 14 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-10-05
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  Partclone is a project like the well-known backup utility "Partition Image" a.k.a partimage. Partclone provide utilities to back up used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system using supported library like e2fslibs.
  
  Downloads: 70 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-11-25
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  Bareos
  Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution
  Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is an enterprise-grade open-source backup solution forked from Bacula. It offers robust backup, restore, and archiving features for Linux, Windows, and macOS systems. Bareos supports encrypted and deduplicated backups across networks, making it ideal for managing large infrastructure backups.
  Downloads: 11 This Week
  Last Update: 2025-12-04
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  zpaqfranz
  Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS
  The Ultimate Archiver: zpaq fork with deduplication & versioning Forget pruning! Get forever storage of your files with thousands of versions. Far more efficient than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots - perfect for VM backups and permanent archiving, effortlessly handling TBs and millions of files. Optimized for cloud/NAS/USB with ultra-low bandwidth, military-grade encryption, and 1GB/s+ speeds on modern hardware. Why Choose zpaqfranz? ✓ Complete: Single/multi-file storage architecture ✓ Modern: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 and more ✓Paranoid: Antiransomware data verification with integrity checks ✓ Runs everywhere: TrueNAS, ARM-powered, even ESXi ✓ Lightning-fast: Multi-core processing + hardware acceleration ✓ Battle-tested: 15+ years of active development since 2009 Perfect for system administrators managing critical backups and anyone needing bulletproof archival solutions with enterprise-grade reliability. See it in action: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz
  Downloads: 50 This Week
  Last Update: 4 days ago
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  SimplyBurns is a Mac OS X application with a GUI, which allows the user to burn CD / DVD media.
  Downloads: 68 This Week
  Last Update: 2019-11-14
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