Alternatives to Déjà Dup
GNOME's backup app: pick folders and a destination, and it handles encryption, scheduling and versions for you. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Déjà Dup
GNOME's backup app: pick folders and a destination, and it handles encryption, scheduling and versions for you.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Déjà Dup.
Pika Backup
A GNOME front end for BorgBackup: plug in a USB drive, pick folders, and it handles the rest.
Pika Backup is also a GNOME app for home folder backups, but it runs on BorgBackup instead of Restic and focuses on USB drives and remote hosts rather than Google Drive.
Vorta
A desktop front end for BorgBackup, so encrypted deduplicated backups stop being a cron job.
Vorta swaps Restic for BorgBackup as the engine and adds macOS support and separate backup profiles, though whole-system restores still need the command line.
Back In Time
Graphical front-end for incremental rsync backups on Linux.
Back In Time uses rsync with hard-linked snapshots that restore from a file manager, but it gives up Déjà Dup's built-in encryption and is slow with very large file counts.
Duplicati
A backup client with a web interface that encrypts your files and pushes them to more than twenty cloud services.
Duplicati adds Windows and macOS support, a web interface and more than twenty cloud destinations, with AES-256 or GnuPG encryption under the MIT license.
Kopia
An encrypted snapshot backup tool with both a command line and a proper desktop app, pointed at whatever storage you choose.
Kopia offers a desktop app and command line on Windows, macOS and Linux, with per-directory retention policies and deduplication, but its format is still pre-1.0.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
restic is the engine Déjà Dup already uses, run directly from the command line, which gives more control and more backends but no graphical interface or scheduler.
Duplicity
Encrypted, bandwidth-efficient incremental backup to remote storage.
Duplicity is a command-line tool for encrypted incremental backups to many remote back ends, but long incremental chains make restores slow and need periodic full backups.
Backrest
Schedule and restore restic backups through a browser interface.
Backrest schedules and restores restic backups through a browser interface on several platforms, giving direct access to restic features.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Timeshift
System restore for Linux: scheduled snapshots you can roll back to after an update goes wrong.
Restic Browser
Browse and restore files from existing restic repositories.
rsnapshot
Filesystem snapshot backups using rsync and hard links.
Grsync
Graphical front end for rsync with saved sessions.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
