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restic/restic

Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#backup #dedupe #deduplication #go #restic #secure-by-default

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-06
History: 45 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 596 open

36,017

stars

Forks: 1,872
Commits: 9,896 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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duplicati/duplicati

Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core Avalonia .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#backup #c-sharp #client-only-backup #cloud-backup #cloud-storage-services #duplicati

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-06-11
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 629 open

14,999

stars

Forks: 1,073
Commits: 14,856 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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.

AI dev

Stack

Go Electron gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#backup #cloud #deduplication #encryption #google-cloud-storage

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-19
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 880 open

14,124

stars

Forks: 727
Commits: 4,261 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

borgbackup/borg

Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

AI dev

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#backup #borgbackup #compression #deduplication #encryption #python

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-14
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 177 open

13,830

stars

Forks: 881
Commits: 11,579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

databasus/databasus

PostgreSQL backup tool with Point-In-Time-Recovery and restore verification

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Gin gRPC Go Next.js Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#backup #backups #database #database-backup #devops #docker

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3 open

9,059

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 1,074 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

elasticsearch-dump/elasticsearch-dump

Import and export tools for elasticsearch & opensearch

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#backup #docker #elasticdump #elasticsearch #export #import

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5 open

7,942

stars

Forks: 867
Commits: 1,502 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mtkennerly/ludusavi

Backup tool for PC game saves

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#backup #cli #cross-platform #games #gui #saves

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-06-21
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

6,306

stars

Forks: 139
Commits: 1,163 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hbons/SparkleShare

Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows

Stack

C# .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#arch #backup #cloud-storage #collaboration #debian #decentralized

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 69 open

4,979

stars

Forks: 569
Commits: 4,761 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

s3tools/s3cmd

Official s3cmd repo -- Command line tool for managing S3 compatible storage services (including Amazon S3 and CloudFront).

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#backup #cli #hacktoberfest #python #s3 #s3cmd

Updated: 2025-10-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-01-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 311 open

4,917

stars

Forks: 902
Commits: 1,944 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

backup/backup

Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#backup #database #encryption #mongodb #mysql #postgresql

Updated: 2024-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-17
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

4,856

stars

Forks: 663
Commits: 1,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

offen/docker-volume-backup

Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3, WebDAV, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive or SSH compatible storage

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#backup #docker #docker-compose #docker-swarm #docker-volume #s3

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 27 open

4,038

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 761 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

syncthing/syncthing-macos

Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle

Stack

Objective-C Go modules Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#apple #backup #cloud-sync #file-sharing #file-sync #frugal

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-12
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

3,952

stars

Forks: 203
Commits: 328 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rsnapshot/rsnapshot

a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

#backup #perl #rsnapshot #rsync

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-08-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 55 open

3,688

stars

Forks: 272
Commits: 1,408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gaubert/gmvault

gmail backup software

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#backup #gmail #gmvault #oauth2 #python #restore

Updated: 2022-05-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-12-16
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 147 open

3,640

stars

Forks: 280
Commits: 1,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ytti/oxidized

Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#backup #network #nms #rancid

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-17
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 71 open

3,611

stars

Forks: 1,059
Commits: 3,583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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wal-e/wal-e

Continuous Archiving for Postgres

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#archiving #azure-blob #backup #backups #blob-store #google-cloud-storage

Updated: 2023-12-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-18
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 94 open

3,465

stars

Forks: 311
Commits: 745 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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EnterpriseDB/barman

Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#backup #disaster-recovery #postgres #postgresql #recovery

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 41 open

3,259

stars

Forks: 274
Commits: 2,746 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gobackup/gobackup

🗄 CLI tool for backup your databases, files to cloud storages in schedully.

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#backup #cli #go #mysql #postgresql #redis

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,952

stars

Forks: 330
Commits: 540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

driesvints/dotfiles

Get started with your own dotfiles.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#backup #brew #dotfiles #homebrew #macos #oh-my-zsh

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-30
History: 40 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,725

stars

Forks: 688
Commits: 633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

s1t5/mail-archiver

Mail-Archiver is a web application for archiving, searching, and exporting emails from multiple accounts. Featuring folder sync, attachment support, mailbox migration and a dashboard.

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core Entity Framework .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#archive #archiver #backup #docker-compose #imap #mail

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-05-06
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 30 open

2,089

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 654 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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moosefs/moosefs

MooseFS Distributed Storage – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System / Software-Defined Storage

Stack

GitHub topics

#backup #block-storage #distributed-computing #distributed-file-system #distributed-storage #ditributed-systems

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 194 open

2,006

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 758 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Portabase/portabase

Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Docker Volume

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS pnpm

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-tool #database #devops #docker #docker-backup

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-10-19
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 43 open

1,844

stars

Forks: 136
Commits: 1,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GreenmaskIO/greenmask

Database anonymization and test data management

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#anonymization #backup #data-masking #database #dba #differential-privacy

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-31
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 50 open

1,781

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 582 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Aiven-Open/pghoard

PostgreSQL® backup and restore service

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#aiven #backup #cloud-object-storage #postgresql #restore

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-19
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 54 open

1,424

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 1,358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

alichtman/shallow-backup

Git-integrated backup tool for macOS and Linux devs.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-script #backup-utility #linux-backup #mac-backup-script

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-25
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

1,335

stars

Forks: 266
Commits: 468 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bareos/bareos

Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

AI dev

Stack

C++ FastAPI Qt Vite Vue CMake Composer npm

GitHub topics

#archiving #backup #backup-solution #backup-utility #bareos #ceph

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-02
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 81 open

1,266

stars

Forks: 318
Commits: 16,251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup

Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.

Stack

Python Bundler PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-script #backup-solution #backup-utility #incremental-backups #rdiff-backup

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 83 open

1,265

stars

Forks: 101
Commits: 1,628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Archmonger/django-dbbackup

Backup and restore your Django database and media

AI dev

Stack

Python Django PEP 517

GitHub topics

#backup #django #mongodb #mysql #postgresql #sqlite

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-27
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 10 open

1,115

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 580 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

uroni/urbackup_backend

UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux

Stack

C Android React Vite CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-solution #c-plus-plus #freebsd #linux #windows

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-06
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

900

stars

Forks: 169
Commits: 6,141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WikiTeam/wikiteam

Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis. As of 2026, WikiTeam has preserved more than 600,000 wikis.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#archive-wikis #backup #digital-preservation #dump #export #mediawiki

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 171 open

874

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 1,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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