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Veeam Backup & ReplicationBareos
Freemium

A free Community Edition is available; the full product is sold as part of the paid Veeam…

 Free

The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…

Windows Windows, Linux, Self-hosted
  • Covers virtual machines, physical machines, NAS shares and cloud workloads
  • Free Community Edition for small setups and home labs
  • It is a full client-server backup solution under AGPLv3 with no open-core restrictions, covering Linux, Windows, macOS…
  • Backup server runs on Windows only
  • Aimed at business infrastructure, so setup is more involved than desktop backup tools
  • Setup is an administrator-level job involving a director, storage daemons and a database, which is far more work…
Downloadable app Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License: Proprietary License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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