CKAN
Backup & RecoveryMake open data websites
Best Multi-User Backup & Recovery for self-hosting
The 22 best Multi-User backup & recovery you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
bitmagnet
Backup & RecoveryBitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search
Open Archiver
Backup & RecoveryEmail archiving solution with full-text search and eDiscovery search
Wayback
Backup & RecoveryA self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive,
mail-archiver
Backup & RecoveryWeb application for archiving, searching, and exporting emails
BackupPC
Backup & RecoveryHigh-performance backup system for PCs and servers
Replaces CrashPlan, Time Machine
Bareos
Backup & RecoveryBackup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced
Replaces Veeam, CommVault
Ganymede
Backup & RecoveryTwitch VOD and live stream archiving platform
UrBackup
Backup & RecoveryClient-server backup for files and disk images
Replaces Carbonite
BorgWarehouse
Backup & RecoveryModern web interface to manage a Borg backup server
Replaces BorgBase
ArchivesSpace
Backup & RecoveryArchives information management application for managing and providing
ElkarBackup
Backup & RecoveryWeb-based backup solution built on rsync
Replaces Carbonite
Collective Access - Providence
Backup & RecoveryHighly configurable Web-based framework for management, description,
Amanda
Backup & RecoveryAdvanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
Replaces Veeam, CommVault
Minarca Backup
Backup & RecoveryCentralized rdiff-backup with self-service restore
Replaces CrashPlan, Veeam
Rdiffweb
Backup & RecoveryWeb interface to browse and restore rdiff-backup repositories
Replaces CrashPlan
Minarca
Backup & RecoveryCross-platform backup software with a central server
Replaces CrashPlan
Time Machine
Backup & RecoveryConfigure the server as a Time Machine backup target
Eonvelope
Backup & RecoveryEmail archiving software that allows you to preserve your emails
Yuno Archive
Backup & RecoveryExtend functionnality of built-in yunoHost backup system
Replaces archivist, borg
Custom Backup
Backup & RecoveryBackup extra paths not already managed by YunoHost backup feature
Sosse
Backup & RecoverySelenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CKAN | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 5,132 |
| bitmagnet | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | MIT | 4,399 |
| Open Archiver | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 2,412 |
| Wayback | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 2,241 |
| mail-archiver | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 2,204 |
| BackupPC | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 1,627 |
| Bareos | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 1,024 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 1,265 |
| Ganymede | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 1,016 |
| UrBackup | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 938 |
| BorgWarehouse | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | GPL-3.0 | 678 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: CKAN (5,132 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Time Machine (from 50 MB RAM, against 1,024 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 9 of 22 use GPL-3.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Multi-User within the backup & recovery category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.