Alternatives to borgmatic
Configure Borg backups, database dumps and monitoring in one place. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
borgmatic
Configure Borg backups, database dumps and monitoring in one place.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as borgmatic.
Vorta
A desktop front end for BorgBackup, so encrypted deduplicated backups stop being a cron job.
Vorta replaces configuration files with a desktop app for Borg on macOS and Linux, but lacks borgmatic's database dump and monitoring integrations.
Pika Backup
A GNOME front end for BorgBackup: plug in a USB drive, pick folders, and it handles the rest.
Pika Backup is a GNOME graphical front end for Borg on Linux only, designed for personal data with fewer retention options.
Backrest
Schedule and restore restic backups through a browser interface.
Backrest schedules restic backups through a browser interface instead of Borg, and runs on Windows as well as macOS and Linux.
autorestic
Config-driven command-line wrapper for restic that manages multiple backup locations and backends.
autorestic keeps the config-file approach but drives restic instead of Borg, managing many locations and backends from one file under Apache-2.0.
resticprofile
A configuration profile manager and scheduler that runs restic backups from a single config file.
resticprofile manages restic rather than Borg through named profiles in a config file and schedules runs through systemd, cron, launchd or Task Scheduler, including on Windows.
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.
BorgBase
A hosted storage service for BorgBackup and Restic repositories with monitoring and append-only mode.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
Kopia
An encrypted snapshot backup tool with both a command line and a proper desktop app, pointed at whatever storage you choose.
Restic REST Server
Provide a remote REST storage endpoint for restic backups.
mongodump
A MongoDB command-line tool that writes a binary BSON export of a database for backup or migration.
