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💾 Backup & Recovery

Free tools to back up files and whole disks, copy data to the cloud, recover deleted files and check disks and memory before they fail. restic, BorgBackup and Syncthing are in the Self-hosting section. Remember: a backup is only a backup after a test restore.

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• Kopia

  kopia.io

  Fast, encrypted backups with deduplication and snapshots, with a graphical interface or the command line. Saves to a disk, a NAS or many cloud services.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #ENCRYPTED
  • #SNAPSHOTS
  • #CROSS-PLATFORM

• Duplicati

  duplicati.com

  Encrypted, scheduled backups to cloud storage, FTP or a NAS, set up in a web interface. Good for a Windows PC.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #ENCRYPTED
  • #SCHEDULED
  • #WEB-UI

• Rclone

  rclone.org

  The command-line Swiss army knife for cloud storage: copy, sync and encrypt files to more than 70 services, or mount them as a drive.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #CLOUD
  • #SYNC
  • #CLI

• Clonezilla

  clonezilla.org

  Boot from a USB stick and make an image of a whole disk or copy it to another disk. The classic tool before replacing a disk.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #DISK-IMAGE
  • #CLONE
  • #BOOTABLE

• Rescuezilla

  rescuezilla.com

  A friendly graphical version of the same idea – disk images and restores with a few clicks, compatible with Clonezilla.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #DISK-IMAGE
  • #GUI
  • #BOOTABLE

• TestDisk & PhotoRec

  cgsecurity.org

  TestDisk repairs lost partitions and boot sectors; PhotoRec digs deleted photos, documents and other files out of disks and memory cards.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #RECOVERY
  • #PARTITIONS
  • #CLI

• smartmontools

  smartmontools.org

  Reads the SMART health data of HDDs and SSDs and can warn before a disk fails. smartctl on the command line, GSmartControl as a graphical interface.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #SMART
  • #DISKS
  • #HEALTH

• CrystalDiskInfo

  crystalmark.info

  Shows the health, temperature and lifetime of disks in Windows in one window.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #WINDOWS
  • #SMART
  • #DISKS

• Memtest86+

  memtest.org

  Tests the RAM from a bootable USB stick. Random crashes and damaged files often come from bad memory, not from the disk.

  • #OPEN-SOURCE
  • #RAM
  • #TESTING
  • #BOOTABLE