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Feature '''comparison of backup software'''. For a more general comparison see [[List of backup software]].

==List ==

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Feature '''comparison of backup software''' for a more general comparison see [[List of backup software]].

==Open Source==

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! Package

! Network optimized (rsync)

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| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

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![[Attic (backup software)|Attic]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Buzhash]] [[Rolling hash|chunking]]<ref name="attic-internals">{{cite web|last1=anarcat|title=document internals better|url=https://github.com/jborg/attic/pull/155/files|website=Github pull requests|accessdate=29 January 2015}}</ref>

| {{yes}}; [[Advanced Encryption Standard|AES]], [[SHA256]] [[HMAC]] with [[PBKDF2]] encrypted keyfiles<ref name="attic-internals" />

| {{yes}}; by MAC of plaintext and ciphertext

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}; through deduplication

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[BackupPC]]

| {{yes}}

|

| {{yes}}; [[Hard link|hard-links]]

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| {{no}}; but can be achieved via pluggable transfer mechanism

| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}; through deduplication

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|

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| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[Bacula]]

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}; [[Incremental backup#Incrementals forever|Incremental]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; Silent error detection (MD5 or SHA1). Backup certification Verify Job

| {{yes}}; *For Linux

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| {{yes}}; Deduplication optimized storage driver

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|

|

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! [[Back Inin Time (Linux software)|Back In Time]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Hard_linkHard link|hard-links]]

| {{yes}}; [[EncFS]]

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! [[BitTorrent]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

|-

![[Borg (backup software)|Borg]]<br>(fork of Attic)

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Buzhash]] [[Rolling hash|chunking]]<ref name="attic-internals"/>

| {{yes}}; [[Advanced Encryption Standard|AES]], [[SHA256]] [[HMAC]] with [[PBKDF2]] encrypted keyfiles<ref name="attic-internals" />

| {{yes}}; by MAC of plaintext and ciphertext

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}; through deduplication

| {{Partial|(in development)}}

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[Bup]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}, chunk deduplication

| {{no}}

| {{yes}} ([[Parchive|Par2]])

| {{yes}}

| ?

| {{yes}}, through deduplication

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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! [[DAR (Disk Archiver)|DAR]]

| {{noyes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Incremental backup#Incrementals forever|Incremental]]; [[Rolling hash|chunking]];

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

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! [[Dump (programUnix)|dump]]

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{Partial}} (Only in Preview)

| {{no}}

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| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

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! [[Git (software)|git]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; snapshot

| {{yes}} (via [https://github.com/spwhitton/git-remote-gcrypt git-remote-gcrypt])

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

|-

! [[git-annex]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{partial}} (with remote block device)

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

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! [[obnam]]

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| {{yes}} chunk

| {{yes}}

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|

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! [[QtdSync]]

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| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! [[rdiff-backup]]

| {{noyes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Incremental backup#Reverse incremental|reverse incremental]]

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}; via Third-party

| {{yes}}

|-

! [[rsync]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Hard link|hard-links]] (--link-dest)

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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| {{Optional}} (separate downloads)

|-

! [[ZmandaTar Recovery Manager(computing)|star]]/gtar

|

| {{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

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|

|

|

| {{dunno}}

| {{no}}

|-

! [[Git (software)|git]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; snapshot

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yesno}}

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

|-

! [[BitTorrentzsync]]

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yesno}}

| {{dunno}}

|-

! [[zsynczpaq]]

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}; [[Incremental backup|Incremental]]

| {{yes}}; [[Advanced Encryption Standard|AES-256/CTR]]

| {{yes}}; [[SHA-1]]

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}; through deduplication

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/view/205 Performance comparison of five remote incremental backup tools: Rsync, Rdiff-backup, Duplicity, Areca and Link-Backup]

[[Category:Backup software|*]]

[[Category:Lists of software|Backup software]]

[[Category:Hard disk software|*]]

[[Category:SoftwareSecurity software comparisons|Backup software]]