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KBackup vs Back In Time: catalog facts
KBackup	Back In Time
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later licence.	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…
Linux	Linux
Profile files define included and excluded folders and files Backs up to local drives or any remote URL	Unchanged files are hard-linked rather than copied, so each snapshot looks complete while using very little extra disk…
Linux only Plain tar archives rather than deduplicated or encrypted snapshots	It is Linux-only and inherits rsync's weaknesses, including no built-in encryption and slow handling of very large file…
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0-or-later	License: GPL-2.0
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 October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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