Comparison of backup software
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Feature comparison of backup software. For a more general comparison see List of backup software.
List[edit]
| Package | Network optimized (rsync) | Versioning (diff, chunk, hardlink) | Full client side Encryption | Error Detection | Simple server | Distributed partials | Renames optimized | Web interface | Webmin module |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMANDA | ? | ? | Optional (separate download + cost) | ||||||
| Areca Backup | ? | ? | No | ||||||
| Attic | Yes | Yes; Buzhash chunking[1] | Yes; AES, SHA256 HMAC with PBKDF2 encrypted keyfiles[1] | Yes; by MAC of plaintext and ciphertext | No | No | Yes; through deduplication | No | No |
| BackupPC | Yes | Yes; hard-links | No; but can be achieved via pluggable transfer mechanism | No | Yes; through deduplication | Yes | No | ||
| Bacula | Yes | Yes; Incremental | Yes | Yes; Silent error detection (MD5 or SHA1). Backup certification Verify Job | Yes; *For Linux | Yes; Deduplication optimized storage driver | Yes | Yes | |
| Back In Time | Yes | Yes; hard-links | Yes; EncFS | No | No | ||||
| BitTorrent | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
| Borg (fork of Attic) | Yes | Yes; Buzhash chunking[1] | Yes; AES, SHA256 HMAC with PBKDF2 encrypted keyfiles[1] | Yes; by MAC of plaintext and ciphertext | No | No | Yes; through deduplication | (in development) | No |
| Box Backup | ? | No | No | ||||||
| Bup | Yes | Yes, chunk deduplication | No | Yes (Par2) | Yes | ? | Yes, through deduplication | Yes | No |
| cpio | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Optional (separate download) |
| Cobian Backup (v11) | ? | No | ? | ||||||
| Cwrsync - Rsync for Windows | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| DirSync Pro | No | No | No | ||||||
| DAR | Yes | Yes; Incremental; chunking; | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| dcfldd | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| dd | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| dump | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| duplicity | Yes | Yes; Incremental | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Duplicati | Yes | Yes; Incremental | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| FlyBack | No | ? | No | ||||||
| git | Yes | Yes; snapshot | Yes (via git-remote-gcrypt) | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? |
| git-annex | Yes | No | Partial (with remote block device) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| luckyBackup | No | No | No | ||||||
| Mondo Rescue | Yes | Yes; Incremental | No | Yes | ? | No | |||
| Redo Backup and Recovery | No | No | No | ||||||
| rdiff-backup | Yes | Yes; reverse incremental | No | No | No | No | Yes; via Third-party | Yes | |
| rsync | Yes | Yes; hard-links (--link-dest) | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Optional (separate downloads) |
| star/gtar | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
| zsync | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| zpaq | Yes | Yes; Incremental | Yes; AES-256/CTR | Yes; SHA-1 | No | No | Yes; through deduplication | No | No |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d anarcat. "document internals better". Github pull requests. Retrieved 29 January 2015.