Borg Backup Server – GUI Manager for Multiple Borg Endpoints

Borg Backup Server is a self-hosted web application for centrally managing BorgBackup across multiple endpoints (Linux, Mac and Windows).

A lightweight agent polls the server for tasks over HTTPS, backs up over SSH to the server, and reports progress back. No inbound connections to endpoints from the server — this works behind firewalls and NAT from where the server is providing easy provisioning. Includes a setup wizard for simple installation or a Docker image to start up in 30 seconds.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Agent-based architecture — endpoints check-in with the server for tasks, the server doesn’t need ssh access to the agent.
• SSH with append-only security — agents can only backup or restore, can’t delete or prune.
• FULL Encryption – Software keeps everything encrypted at rest for enhanced security.
• Setup wizard — browser-based installer configures database, admin account, and storage quickly
• Real-time progress — live progress bars during backups with detailed logging.
• File-level restore — catalog data is saved in ClickHouse DB for fast search and file-tree without having to lock the borg repo.
• Download archives — extract and download files as .tar.gz directly from the browser.
• Database plugins — MySQL and PostgreSQL pre-dumps with automatic restore back into the database as a copy or replacement.
• Flexible scheduling — hourly to monthly intervals, multiple plans per client, manual trigger
• Backup templates — pre-configured and customizeable directory sets for common server roles.
• Retention policies — per-plan prune settings (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/yearly).
• S3 offsite sync — mirror repositories to S3-compatible storage (AWS, Wasabi, Backblaze B2) for enahnced compliance.
• Remote Storage Repos — wizards to backup to BorgBase, Hetzen and rsync.net (or any SSH provider that provides borg).
• Repo Management – Perform hard unlocks, repair, re-catalog, and other repo specific features.
• Nightly Backup Reports – get an email every day with backup stats.
• Multi-user — custom role-based access with various roles.
• Two-factor authentication — TOTP-based 2FA with recovery codes, hooks into your 2FA of choice.
• Queue management — concurrent job limits, cancel/retry, progress tracking.
• Encrypted passphrases — repository passwords encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM).
• Apprise alerts — custom push notifications to over 100 different notification services (Slack, Pushover, etc).
• Extensive Dashboard — backup charts, server stats, active jobs, see everything at a glance.
• Server self-backup — daily automated backup of BBS itself with optional S3 sync offsite with restore scripts.
• Automatic Self-Upgrade – one-click upgrade of the software plus all the agents. Also manage borg versions of client machines.

Website: github.com/marcpope/borgbackupserver
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Developer: Marc Pope
License: MIT License

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