Attic: A Simple Backup Tool That Doesn’t Pretend to Be More Than It Is Let’s be honest — Attic isn’t the newest or flashiest backup tool out there. It’s not trying to be cloud-native or smart or “enterprise-ready.” What it does offer is something many admins still want: quiet, repeatable backups with deduplication, straight from the terminal.

No GUIs, no daemons, no nonsense.

You give it a path and a repo location — local or remote — and it stores exactly what changed since the last run. Effic

BackupPC: Centralized Network Backups Without the Noise Some backup systems want to be everything — cloud-ready, mobile-friendly, built into dashboards with AI suggestions. BackupPC is not one of them. It’s a straightforward, server-side backup solution that quietly pulls in data from Linux, Windows, and macOS machines over the network, deduplicates it smartly, and stores it locally — usually for years.

It doesn’t need agents. It barely needs your attention once configured. And it works surpris

Kopia: A Backup Tool That’s Quietly Smarter Than Most Most backup software either tries too hard or not hard enough. Kopia is one of the rare ones that gets it just right — doesn’t talk much, doesn’t lock you into anything, and doesn’t mess up your system with daemons or half-working services.

It just works. You run it, point it at a folder, and it starts creating snapshots — encrypted, deduplicated, and fast. No server needed. No GUI dependency (though there is one if you want it). It feels li

BorgBackup: Deduplicated, Encrypted Backups That Don’t Waste Time (or Space) There’s a certain type of backup admin who doesn’t care about GUIs, doesn’t want some cloud agent phoning home, and really just wants to back up files efficiently, securely, and locally. That’s who BorgBackup was built for.

It’s fast. It’s battle-tested. It’s deduplicating, compressing, and encrypting every backup you throw at it — with a CLI that makes scripting and automation feel like second nature.

If you’ve ever