Free Backup Software
From Backup Central
All of the open source products listed here are covered in Backup & Recovery. (Buy It)
| Product | Free Chapters | Comments |
| Download Amanda | Read free AMANDA chapter | Now commercially supported |
| AppAssure Replay 4 Trial | Support for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Small Business Server | |
| AppAssure MailRetriever Lite | Free Tool for Single Message Recovery in Exchange | |
| AppAssure DocRetriever | Free Tool for Single Document Recovery in SharePoint | |
| Arkeia Network Backup Free Edition | No-cost, perpetual license of Arkeia Network Backup for Linux | |
| Arkeia Virtual Appliance Free Edition | No-cost, fully featured appliance that is deployed in both VMware ESX and ESXi environments | |
| Download Bacula | Read free Bacula chapter | |
| Download BackupPC | Read free BackupPC chapter | |
| KLEO | Bare Metal Backup for Servers | |
| Download Rdiff-backup | Read free Rdiff-backup chapter | |
| Download rsnapshot | Read free Rsnapshot chapter | |
| Download Rsync with snapshots | Read free Rsync with snapshots chapter | |
| Storgrid Personal | Free version backs up to your or friend's PC. Commercial service available. | |
| Box Backup | Free and open source, encrypted online backup to your own server or a commercial service. Free and commercial support available. | |
| Cucku Backup | Backup to a friend or family member's PC (peer-to-peer backup). Free version supports a single backup partner, Pro version supports unlimited backup partners. | |
| GFI Backup | Free backup tool for consumers with advanced features and functionality. Commercial support available. | |
| LBackup | Backup tool aimed at systems administrators. Configuration is carried out via the editing of text files within a configuration directory. Support available. Disk to disk backup system focused on the data backup of user data. | |
| UrBackup | Simple Client/Server backup solution, which is able to do full and incremental file and image backups of Windows clients. | |
| Duplicati | Free backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental (diffs only, similar to rsync/rdiff-backup), compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. It supports targets like Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Docs, Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP. It is a cross-platform Mono/.NET reimplemention of Duplicity with a beginner-friendly user interface. It is licensed under LGPL. |
