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Back In Time vs KBackup: catalog facts
Back In Time	KBackup
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later licence.
Linux	Linux
Unchanged files are hard-linked rather than copied, so each snapshot looks complete while using very little extra disk…	Profile files define included and excluded folders and files Backs up to local drives or any remote URL
It is Linux-only and inherits rsync's weaknesses, including no built-in encryption and slow handling of very large file…	Linux only Plain tar archives rather than deduplicated or encrypted snapshots
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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