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Duplicati vs restic: catalog facts
Duplicati	restic
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	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
A very long list of supported destinations, including most mainstream cloud storage AES-256 or GnuPG encryption applied before anything is uploaded	One static binary with no server, agent or database to install first Content-defined chunking means daily backups only transfer what changed
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…	Command line only; any graphical interface or scheduling comes from third-party projects Still pre-1.0, so the project does not yet guarantee backward compatibility across major versions
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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