Alternatives to SnapRAID
Parity-based backup tool that protects JBOD disk arrays from drive failure. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
SnapRAID
Parity-based backup tool that protects JBOD disk arrays from drive failure.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SnapRAID.
Unraid
A paid home server operating system combining NAS storage, Docker containers and virtual machines.
Unraid is a paid, closed-source server operating system that also mixes drives of any size, adding Docker containers and virtual machines on top of storage.
TrueNAS Community Edition
A free Linux-based storage operating system built on OpenZFS, with Docker apps and virtualization.
TrueNAS Community Edition is a free storage operating system built on OpenZFS, replacing parity snapshots with ZFS and adding Docker apps and virtualization.
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.
rsnapshot
Filesystem snapshot backups using rsync and hard links.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
Sanoid
Policy-driven ZFS snapshot management and replication tools, with syncoid for sending snapshots to other machines.
zrepl
ZFS backup and replication daemon that snapshots datasets and replicates them between pools and hosts.
btrbk
Backup tool for Btrfs that takes atomic snapshots and sends them incrementally to backup locations.
