Alternatives to Vorta
A desktop front end for BorgBackup, so encrypted deduplicated backups stop being a cron job. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Vorta
A desktop front end for BorgBackup, so encrypted deduplicated backups stop being a cron job.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Vorta.
Pika Backup
A GNOME front end for BorgBackup: plug in a USB drive, pick folders, and it handles the rest.
Pika Backup is another BorgBackup front end, built for GNOME on Linux only, with hourly to monthly schedules but fewer retention and pruning options and no macOS version.
BorgBackup
A deduplicating archiver for Linux, macOS and BSD that makes daily backups cost almost nothing beyond the day’s changes.
BorgBackup is the upstream engine Vorta wraps, giving full control through the command line, but you lose the desktop app and must arrange scheduling yourself.
borgmatic
Configure Borg backups, database dumps and monitoring in one place.
borgmatic configures Borg backups through a config file and adds database dumps and monitoring integrations, replacing Vorta's desktop interface with a configuration-driven approach.
Kopia
An encrypted snapshot backup tool with both a command line and a proper desktop app, pointed at whatever storage you choose.
Kopia offers its own encrypted, deduplicated snapshots with a desktop app and command line, and adds a Windows version, though it is still pre-1.0 and uses a different repository format.
Backrest
Schedule and restore restic backups through a browser interface.
Backrest schedules and restores restic backups through a browser interface on Windows, macOS and Linux, switching the underlying engine from Borg to restic.
Déjà Dup
GNOME's backup app: pick folders and a destination, and it handles encryption, scheduling and versions for you.
Déjà Dup is GNOME's backup app with encryption, scheduling and cloud destinations like Google Drive, uses restic underneath, and runs on Linux only with few retention options.
Duplicati
A backup client with a web interface that encrypts your files and pushes them to more than twenty cloud services.
Duplicati is an MIT-licensed client with a web interface and more than twenty cloud destinations on Windows, macOS and Linux, though restores of very large sets can be slow.
Arq
Encrypted backup software for Mac and Windows that stores backups in your own cloud account or disk.
Arq provides encrypted snapshot backups to your own cloud or disk on Mac and Windows, but it is paid, closed source and has no Linux version.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Vorta as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Apple Time Machine
Built-in macOS backup tool that takes hourly snapshots automatically.
Vorta is a free open source desktop front end for BorgBackup on macOS and Linux, adding encrypted deduplicated backups to disks or SSH servers.
Back In Time
Graphical front-end for incremental rsync backups on Linux.
Vorta is a desktop Borg front end for Linux and macOS that adds encrypted, deduplicated backups to local disks, SSH servers or hosting services.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
restic
A single-executable backup program that makes encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and can send them almost anywhere.
BorgBase
A hosted storage service for BorgBackup and Restic repositories with monitoring and append-only mode.
Restic REST Server
Provide a remote REST storage endpoint for restic backups.
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.
