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BorgBackupVorta
Free

Free and open source, with no paid edition.

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL 3.0. BorgBase, the optional hosting service from the…

Linux, macOS, Command line macOS, Linux
  • Content-defined chunking that survives files being renamed, moved or shifted around
  • Authenticated AES encryption, so an untrusted backup server only ever sees ciphertext
  • Turns Borg's encrypted deduplicated backups into a normal desktop app
  • Browse any past archive and restore individual files
  • 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
  • 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: BSD-2-Clause License: GPL-3.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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