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Pika BackupBorgBackup
Free

Free and open source under the GPL, part of GNOME Circle.

 Free

Free and open source, with no paid edition.

Linux Linux, macOS, Command line
  • BorgBackup underneath, which is well tested and deduplicates aggressively
  • Local and remote destinations can run at the same time
  • Content-defined chunking that survives files being renamed, moved or shifted around
  • Authenticated AES encryption, so an untrusted backup server only ever sees ciphertext
  • Designed for personal data; it does not support complete system recovery
  • Linux only, and clearly built for GNOME
  • 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: GPL-3.0 License: BSD-2-Clause
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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