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 |
| Mysafeport | 1server 5GB free | Mysafeport is online secure automatic cloud based backup and disaster recovery service for Windows and Unix/Linux servers. It consists of two major components Bacula Open Source Network Backup Solution and Amazon S3 fully redundant cloud storage |
| CrashPlan PROe | 30 day free trial | CrashPlan PROe is the only enterprise backup solution that runs continuously and empowers end users with easy, self-service access to backed up files from any computer or mobile device, while giving enterprise IT a single, powerful disaster recovery solution that’s easy to manage. |
| Dropmyemail email backup | 15 day free trial | Dropmyemail provides a simple service to back up emails and be able to migrate emails from one provider to another. It’s a free and simple two click signup process to get you going. Add the mail accounts to back emails or migrate emails and you are safe. In the future, we will back up all aspects of the Internet.. |
| 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. |
