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BorgBackup vs Synology Hyper Backup: catalog facts
BorgBackup	Synology Hyper Backup
Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.	Free Included with Synology NAS systems; cloud destinations may cost extra.
Linux, macOS, Command line	Self-hosted
Content-defined chunking that survives files being renamed, moved or shifted around Authenticated AES encryption, so an untrusted backup server only ever sees ciphertext	Wide range of local, NAS, rsync and cloud destinations Versioning with deduplication and incremental backups
Primarily a Unix tool; on Windows it needs WSL or Cygwin rather than a native build Borg 2 is still in beta, ships breaking changes between betas and should not hold production backups	Only runs on Synology NAS hardware Closed source
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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