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Duplicati vs BorgBackup: catalog facts
Duplicati	BorgBackup
Free The backup client is free and open source. The vendor sells a separate commercial…	Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux, macOS, Command line
A very long list of supported destinations, including most mainstream cloud storage AES-256 or GnuPG encryption applied before anything is uploaded	Content-defined chunking that survives files being renamed, moved or shifted around Authenticated AES encryption, so an untrusted backup server only ever sees ciphertext
The stable and canary channels move at very different speeds, and the project spent years in beta Restores of very large backup sets can be slow, because the format is built around remote storage rather…	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
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: BSD-2-Clause
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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