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Back In Time vs Vorta: catalog facts
Back In Time	Vorta
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0. BorgBase, the optional hosting service from the…
Linux	macOS, Linux
Unchanged files are hard-linked rather than copied, so each snapshot looks complete while using very little extra disk…	Turns Borg's encrypted deduplicated backups into a normal desktop app Browse any past archive and restore individual files
It is Linux-only and inherits rsync's weaknesses, including no built-in encryption and slow handling of very large file…	macOS and Linux only, because Borg does not support Windows You still need to understand Borg repositories when something goes wrong
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
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 September 21, 2026

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