Duplicacy vs Duplicati
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted backup & recovery options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Duplicati with
choose an app… Syncthing LocalSend MinIO Rclone copyparty Puter croc Spacedrive Nextcloud File Browser Restic SeaweedFS Cloudreve Magic Wormhole Kopia BorgBackup Velero bup Backrest CKAN pgBackRest bitmagnet Timeshift WAL-G Docker Volume Backup Sanoid rsnapshot Backup wrapper nono Backup-rsync-time-backup Barman mydumper Rustic Back In Time pgBackWeb SnapRAID Vorta Open Archiver Wayback btrbk mail-archiver Backup tool nono Plakar borgmatic Autorestic BackupPC MySQL backup XtraBackup Restic REST Server Gickup Stash by AppsCode Restic alt MiniBackup Restic Browser rdiff-backup Bareos ElkarBackup alt Snapper zrepl K8up Ganymede Bupstash UrBackup Kanister linux-timemachine ZFS Autobackup MySQL Backup Container Restic Cron ZnapZend Restic Mailer BorgWarehouse Deja Dup Burp Backblaze alt Kopia-UI Standalone Knoxite ArchivesSpace ElkarBackup Collective Access - Providence Duplicacy alt MailpileBackup nono pgmoneta Duplicity Conserve Backup Backblaze alt nono Nxs-backup Amanda Tarsnap GUI Minarca Backup DAR Obnam2 Rdiffweb Restic Exporter Kup Minarca BackupNinja Time Machine Eonvelope Yuno Archive Custom Backup Sosse HashBackup
Feature Duplicacy Duplicati Category Backup & Recovery Backup & Recovery License Proprietary MIT Language Go C# Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 256 MB 256 MB Deployment binary, docker docker, bare-metal GitHub stars ★ 5,671 ★ 14,864 First released 2016 2008 Replaces Backblaze, Carbonite Backblaze, Carbonite
Why pick each one
Choose Duplicacy if… Efficient deduplication Good cloud support Reliable Duplicacy details
Frequently asked questions Is Duplicacy or Duplicati better? Duplicati is the stronger all-round pick: it has both the larger community and the simpler easy setup. Consider Duplicacy if its specific feature set fits your needs better.
Are Duplicacy and Duplicati free and open-source? Yes. Duplicacy is licensed under Proprietary and Duplicati under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Duplicacy and Duplicati with Docker? Duplicacy: yes. Duplicati: yes.