Best Open Source Backups in 2026
Software for scheduling, storing, and managing backups of data, databases, and system configurations.
The most popular pick this year is Duplicati with 14,542 GitHub stars, but all 2 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.
2 open source backups — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all
Duplicati
Free, open-source backup software that stores encrypted, incremental backups to cloud storage and remote servers.
Backblaze
Portabase
Open-source, self-hosted database backup and restore platform for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and more.
VeeamHow we rank these tools
Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.
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