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Bupstash

Easy and efficient encrypted backups

Backup & Recovery ★ 925 stars Medium setup MIT

Bupstash is a tool for encrypted, deduplicated, and compressed backups. It is designed to be simple, secure, and efficient, storing backups locally or over SSH.

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Key features

  • Encrypted deduplicated backups
  • Works over SSH
  • Simple command-line interface

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Written in Rust
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is Bupstash secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Bupstash's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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