Alternatives to BorgBase
A hosted storage service for BorgBackup and Restic repositories with monitoring and append-only mode. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
BorgBase
A hosted storage service for BorgBackup and Restic repositories with monitoring and append-only mode.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as BorgBase.
Restic REST Server
Provide a remote REST storage endpoint for restic backups.
Restic REST Server is free open source software you host yourself as a restic backend with append-only support, but it does not serve Borg.
Tarsnap
A command-line online backup service for Unix-like systems with client-side encryption and block-level deduplication.
Tarsnap is a paid online backup service with its own command-line client, client-side encryption and deduplication, billed for what is stored and transferred.
Also worth comparing
These listings name BorgBase as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
BorgWarehouse
A self-hosted web interface for running a central BorgBackup repository server.
BorgBase replaces your self-hosted server with a hosted, closed-source storage service for Borg and Restic repositories, adding alerts and append-only mode, with a 10 GB free tier.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
Vorta
A desktop front end for BorgBackup, so encrypted deduplicated backups stop being a cron job.
borgmatic
Configure Borg backups, database dumps and monitoring in one place.
Pika Backup
A GNOME front end for BorgBackup: plug in a USB drive, pick folders, and it handles the rest.
Backrest
Schedule and restore restic backups through a browser interface.
