Attic – Minimal Backup Tool That Just Does the Job What is Attic Attic isn’t trying to impress anyone. It’s a command-line backup program built for one thing: making efficient, encrypted backups that don’t waste disk space. No daemons, no GUIs, no magic. It walks the filesystem, chunks files into pieces, skips what’s already there, and writes the rest into an archive. That’s it.

It works best in environments where things don’t need to look pretty — where backup scripts run nightly, disks are ti

BorgBackup – Reliable Backups with Compression, Deduplication, and No Fuss What is BorgBackup BorgBackup (or just Borg) is one of those tools that ends up staying on your systems for years. It’s simple, dependable, and does exactly what you ask of it: take backups, deduplicate data, compress everything, and encrypt it if needed — all in one step.

It’s built with scripting in mind. No GUI, no background daemons, no hidden processes. You run a command, it snapshots your files, and you’re done. If

Kopia – Fast, Secure, and Script-Friendly Backup Engine What is Kopia Kopia isn’t built for legacy systems or flashy dashboards — it’s for people who want their backups to be encrypted, deduplicated, and quietly handled in the background. It runs cross-platform, supports local disks and remote storage (like S3, Azure, or plain SFTP), and does all the heavy lifting without asking much in return.

Whether it’s a developer backing up code directories to cloud buckets, or an admin scripting schedule

BorgBackup – Reliable Backups with Compression, Deduplication, and No Fuss What is BorgBackup BorgBackup (or just Borg) is one of those tools that ends up staying on your systems for years. It’s simple, dependable, and does exactly what you ask of it: take backups, deduplicate data, compress everything, and encrypt it if needed — all in one step.

It’s built with scripting in mind. No GUI, no background daemons, no hidden processes. You run a command, it snapshots your files, and you’re done. If