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9 self-hosted BorgBase alternatives

Hosted repository service for BorgBackup providing remote encrypted backups, key management, retention policies, monitoring, and integrations for automated offsite backups.

Alternatives to BorgBase

Restic is a fast, efficient backup program with encryption, deduplication, snapshots, and multiple storage backends including local, SFTP, REST, and S3-compatible stores.

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35.7k stars1.8k forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

Open-source backup client for encrypted, compressed, incremental backups to cloud storage and remote servers via SFTP, WebDAV, and more.

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14.9k stars1.1k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Cross-platform backup and restore tool with snapshot-based incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression, and deduplication via CLI and GUI.

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14k stars712 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program with authenticated encryption and compression for Unix-like systems.

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13.7k stars867 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Open-source database backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and MongoDB with scheduling, encrypted archives, multiple storage backends, and notifications.

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8.3k stars509 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted backup automation with a modern web UI, built on restic. Schedule, monitor, and restore encrypted backups from local or remote volumes to multiple repositories.

6.9k stars174 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Cross-platform backup tool with lock-free deduplication, encryption, snapshots, and pruning, supporting local disk, SFTP, and many cloud storage backends.

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5.7k stars352 forkslast commit Actively maintained

A modern web UI for Borg Backup to create, schedule, monitor, and restore backups with file-level browsing, notifications, and SSH/SFTP repository support.

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1.6k stars52 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Web-based tool to schedule, run and manage backups of Git repositories with retention controls and SMB destination support.

314 stars10 forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

What replacing BorgBase actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 8 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: BSD-2-Clause, Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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