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Comet Backup vs Bareos: catalog facts
Comet Backup	Bareos
Paid Commercial software with a free trial.	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows, Linux, Self-hosted
Covers Windows, Linux, macOS, hypervisors and Microsoft 365 Choice of Comet cloud, any S3 service or your own storage	It is a full client-server backup solution under AGPLv3 with no open-core restrictions, covering Linux, Windows, macOS…
Aimed at businesses and MSPs rather than home users Pricing is not shown on the homepage	Setup is an administrator-level job involving a director, storage daemons and a database, which is far more work…
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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