Comparison of backup software
# Comparison of backup software

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

## List

| 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 | Yes; AES, SHA256 HMAC with PBKDF2 encrypted keyfiles | 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 | Yes; AES, SHA256 HMAC with PBKDF2 encrypted keyfiles | 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 |
