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Vorta vs Back In Time: catalog facts
Vorta	Back In Time
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0. BorgBase, the optional hosting service from the…	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…
macOS, Linux	Linux
Turns Borg's encrypted deduplicated backups into a normal desktop app Browse any past archive and restore individual files	Unchanged files are hard-linked rather than copied, so each snapshot looks complete while using very little extra disk…
macOS and Linux only, because Borg does not support Windows You still need to understand Borg repositories when something goes wrong	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-3.0	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 September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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