Backup software in 2026
5 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. 30 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Rclone leads with 61k stars, ahead of Restic. 30 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (9), Apache-2.0 (8) and GPL-3.0 (7).
Commercial backup software
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Veeam Data Platform Veeam Software
Discover cyber resilient solutions for AI and data. See risk everywhere, move data securely, stay compliant, and accelerate safe AI all with Veeam.
Complete system Production-ready A business with VMware, Hyper-V or mixed infrastructure needs dependable server backup and fast recovery.
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Acronis Cyber Protect Acronis
We deliver deeply integrated AI-powered features across our backup, cybersecurity, endpoint management and automation solutions to protect and manage workloads for MSPs and businesses. Protect your business and simplify IT operations today.
Complete system Production-ready An MSP or small IT team wants backup and endpoint security from one console.
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Backblaze Computer Backup Backblaze
Automatic, unlimited backup for Mac & PC. Protect every photo, video, and file from hard drive failure, accidents, and disasters. 14-day free trial.
Complete system Production-ready You want set-and-forget offsite backup of a personal or small-office computer with unlimited data.
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CrashPlan CrashPlan
CrashPlan provides data resiliency through secure, scalable, and comprehensive backup solutions. We help organizations recover from worst-case scenarios.
Complete system Production-ready A small or mid-size business needs ongoing endpoint backup with long version history.
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Arq Arq Backup
Complete system Production-ready You want encrypted, versioned backups to your own storage provider rather than a backup company's cloud.
Commercial
New open-source projects
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Dsh-purge kingcharleslzy-ai
dsh-purge Community · DeepSeek Harness 社区维护版：宿主兼容、状态诊断、提示词管理、更新与本机备份回滚。基于小杨 / YuJunZhiXue 的 dsh-purge。
★ 4.2k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed yesterday
Open-source backup software
Complete systems you can adopt 7
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Kopia kopia
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Complete system Production-ready You want restic-style backups with a GUI and built-in scheduling, for desktops or small servers.
★ 15k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today -
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Velero velero-io
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes
Complete system Production-ready You run Kubernetes in production and need cluster-level disaster recovery or migration.
★ 10k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today -
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Databasus databasus
PostgreSQL backup tool with Point-In-Time-Recovery and restore verification
Complete system Usable You run your own PostgreSQL databases and want scheduled backups and PITR managed from a UI rather than hand-built scripts.
★ 9.2k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 8 days ago -
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Backrest garethgeorge
Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.
Complete system Usable You like restic but want scheduling, notifications and browsing snapshots in a browser.
★ 7.8k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 42 days ago -
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Android-DataBackup XayahSuSuSu
DataBackup for Android 7.0+
Complete system Usable Your Android phone is rooted and you want full app-plus-data backups when switching ROMs or devices.
★ 7.6k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed 9 days ago -
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Zerobyte nicotsx
Backup automation for self-hosters. Built on top of restic
Complete system Usable You self-host services and want restic backups with a web dashboard instead of cron jobs and scripts.
★ 7.1k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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Ludusavi mtkennerly
Backup tool for PC game saves
Complete system Production-ready You play PC games, including on Steam Deck, and want saves backed up regardless of cloud sync support.
★ 6.5k MIT Rust Active, pushed 16 days ago
Developer tools 3
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Rclone rclone
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Developer tool Production-ready You need to move or back up data between cloud storage services, or script access to them.
★ 61k MIT Go Active, pushed today -
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Restic restic
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Developer tool Production-ready You want dependable scripted backups of servers or workstations to cheap object storage and are comfortable with a CLI.
★ 37k BSD-2-Clause Go Active, pushed 2 days ago -
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Elasticsearch-dump elasticsearch-dump
Import and export tools for elasticsearch & opensearch
Developer tool Production-ready You need to copy or back up indices between clusters or to files without setting up snapshot repositories.
★ 7.9k Apache-2.0 JavaScript Active, pushed yesterday
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 18. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Strong copyleft: 8. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Network copyleft: 3. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Weak copyleft: 1. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
Languages
Go 9, TypeScript 3, Rust 3, JavaScript 2, PHP 2, Shell 2, Python 2, Kotlin 1, C# 1, Objective-C 1, Perl 1, Ruby 1, C++ 1 and PowerShell 1.
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