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Minarca Backup

Centralized rdiff-backup with self-service restore

Backup & Recovery ★ 266 stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Minarca is a centralized backup solution built on rdiff-backup that lets users back up multiple machines and restore their own files through a web interface. It is designed for organizations protecting many endpoints.

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Key features

  • Centralized endpoint backup
  • Self-service restore
  • rdiff-backup engine
  • Web management

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Written in Python
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is Minarca Backup secure?

OSV.dev lists 2 published advisories for Minarca Backup. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2022-3268, published 2022-09-22 (1483 days ago), fixed in 4.2.2

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

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