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Synology Hyper Backup vs BorgBackup: catalog facts
Synology Hyper Backup	BorgBackup
Free Included with Synology NAS systems; cloud destinations may cost extra.	Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.
Self-hosted	Linux, macOS, Command line
Wide range of local, NAS, rsync and cloud destinations Versioning with deduplication and incremental backups	Content-defined chunking that survives files being renamed, moved or shifted around Authenticated AES encryption, so an untrusted backup server only ever sees ciphertext
Only runs on Synology NAS hardware Closed source	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
Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: BSD-2-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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