Comparison of backup software
Feature comparison of backup software for a more general comparison see List of backup software.
Open Source
| Package | Network optimized (rsync) | Versioning (diff, chunk, hardlink) | Full client side Encryption | Error Detection | Simple server | Distributed partials | Renames optimized | Web interface | Webmin module |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMANDA | ? | ? | Optional (separate download + cost) | ||||||
| Areca Backup | ? | ? | No | ||||||
| Attic | Yes | Yes; Buzhash chunking[1] | Yes; AES, SHA256 HMAC with PBKDF2 encrypted keyfiles[1] | Yes; by MAC of plaintext and ciphertext | No | No | Yes; through deduplication | No | No |
| BackupPC | Yes | Yes; hard-links | No; but can be achieved via pluggable transfer mechanism | No | Yes; through deduplication | Yes | No | ||
| BackupVault | Yes | Yes; patching | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes; through deduplication | Yes | Yes |
| Bacula | Yes; Incremental | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Back In Time | Yes | Yes; hard-links | Yes; EncFS | No | No | ||||
| BitTorrent | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Borg (fork of Attic) |
Yes | Yes; Buzhash chunking[1] | Yes; AES, SHA256 HMAC with PBKDF2 encrypted keyfiles[1] | Yes; by MAC of plaintext and ciphertext | No | No | Yes; through deduplication | (in development) | No |
| Box Backup | ? | No | No | ||||||
| Bup | Yes | Yes, chunk deduplication | No | Yes (Par2) | Yes | ? | Yes, through deduplication | Yes | No |
| cpio | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Optional (separate download) |
| Cobian Backup (v11) | ? | No | ? | ||||||
| Cwrsync - Rsync for Windows | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DirSync Pro | No | No | No | ||||||
| DAR | No | Yes; Incremental | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| dcfldd | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| dd | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| dump | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| duplicity | Yes | Yes; Incremental | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Duplicati | Yes | Yes; Incremental | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| FlyBack | No | ? | No | ||||||
| git | Yes | Yes; snapshot | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
| git-annex | Yes | No | Partial (with remote block device) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| luckyBackup | No | No | No | ||||||
| Mondo Rescue | Yes | Yes; Incremental | No | Yes | ? | No | |||
| obnam | Yes chunk | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||||
| Redo Backup and Recovery | No | No | No | ||||||
| restic | Yes | Yes; Rabbin chunking[2]. | Yes; AES-256-CTR, Poly1305, with scrypt encrypted keyfiles[3] | Yes; through authenticated encryption and content-addressable storage using a cryptographic hash function | Yes; supports both object storage and traditional cloud storage | No | Yes; through deduplication | No | No |
| rdiff-backup | Yes | Yes; reverse incremental | No | No | No | No | Yes; via Third-party | Yes | |
| rsync | Yes | Yes; hard-links (--link-dest) | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Optional (separate downloads) |
| star/gtar | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
| Zmanda Recovery Manager | Yes | ? | ? | No | |||||
| zsync | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
References
- ^ a b c d anarcat. "document internals better". Github pull requests. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- ^ "Introducing Content Defined Chunking (CDC)". 2015-09-12.
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