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Conserve Backup

Robust, fast, deduplicating backup tool

Backup & Recovery ★ 277 stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

Conserve is a robust backup program written in Rust that creates deduplicated, versioned archives to local or remote storage. It emphasizes data safety and resumable operations.

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Key features

  • Deduplicated archives
  • Versioned backups
  • Resumable operations
  • Data-safety focus

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Written in Rust
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Is Conserve Backup secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Conserve Backup'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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