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Backup software

9 Best Free and Open Source Restic Wrappers

March 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We recommend the best free and open source wrapper tools for restic.

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cecup – GUI backup tool based on rsync

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

cecup is a graphical backup and directory synchronisation tool built around rsync.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Restic Front-Ends

March 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We feature some useful front-ends for restic.

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39 Best Free and Open Source Linux Backup Tools

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Linux offers a wide range of backup solutions. We take a look at the best free and open source solutions

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Backup with these Linux DeDuplicating Encryption Tools

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

Making file backups is an essential activity for all users, yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data.

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Vykar – fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust

March 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software, Web Apps

Vykar is a backup utility that creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of data and stores them in local or remote repositories.

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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Simple Backup Software

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, System Software, Utilities

We recommend home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. Here’s our verdict on open source solutions.

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GoBackup – backup your databases

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

GoBackup is a backup tool design for application servers, to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.

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OtoClone – automatic backup and sync utility

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

OtoClone is an automatic backup and sync utility that watches directories.

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Plakar – scalable backup solution

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Web Apps

Plakar provides a powerful, and scalable backup solution. Besides file-level backups it captures application data with its full context.

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Apart GTK – partclone GUI

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Apart GTK is a Linux GUI tool for cloning and restoring disk partitions to and from compressed image files.

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httm – file-level Time Machine-like tool

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

httm is an interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups).

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7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, System Software

BorgBackup (Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. We recommend the best front-ends for Borg.

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Backrest – web UI and orchestrator for restic backup

April 28, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software, Web Apps

Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on top of restic. Backrest provides a WebUI which wraps the restic CLI. Here’s our review.

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Duplicati – store encrypted backups online

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, System Software

Duplicati is a backup client that stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers.

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Resticker runs automatic restic backups

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms System Software

Resticker runs automatic restic backups via a Docker container.

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Crestic is a configurable restic wrapper

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Crestic is a slim configuration wrapper for Restic, an awesome backup tool.

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ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, System Software

ArchiveKeep is a utility that keeps your files archived in multiple places, in a reliable and simple way.

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Restic Browser is a simple restic backup GUI

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Restic Browser is a GUI to browse and restore restic backup repositories. It is built with Tauri, based on leaanthony’s Restoric PoC.

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Resticity is a cross-platform UI for restic

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Resticity is billed as a beautiful cross-platform UI for restic, built with Wails.

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