Borgbackup Deduplicating Encrypted Backup

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name: "BorgBackup Deduplicating Encrypted Backup Program"
slug: "borgbackup-deduplicating-encrypted-backup"
description: "BorgBackup (Borg) is a deduplicating backup program with optional compression and authenticated encryption. It uses content-defined chunking for space-efficient daily backups, making it ideal for automating secure incremental backups to local or remote SSH targets."
github_stars: 13199
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/borgbackup/borg"
category: "Runbooks & Diagnostics"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "borgbackup/borg"
  github_stars: 13199
---

# BorgBackup Deduplicating Encrypted Backup Program

BorgBackup (Borg) is a deduplicating backup program with optional compression and authenticated encryption. It uses content-defined chunking for space-efficient daily backups, making it ideal for automating secure incremental backups to local or remote SSH targets.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- make fingerprinting attacks more difficult.

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- We offer single-file binaries that do not require installing anything -
- Mailing list <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/borgbackup>_

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- you can just run them on these platforms:
- :alt: BorgBackup Basic Usage
- .. _advanced usage: https://asciinema.org/a/133293?autoplay=1&speed=1

- Source: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/borgbackup/borg/HEAD/README.rst

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