Kup vs Restic
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 Kup with
choose an app… Rclone Duplicati Kopia BorgBackup Velero bup Backrest Duplicacy CKAN Timeshift Sanoid rsnapshot Backup wrapper nono Backup-rsync-time-backup Back In Time Vorta btrbk BackupPC Restic Browser rdiff-backup ElkarBackup alt Snapper ZnapZend Deja Dup Backblaze alt Kopia-UI Standalone
Compare Restic with
choose an app… Syncthing LocalSend MinIO Rclone copyparty Puter croc Spacedrive Nextcloud File Browser SeaweedFS Cloudreve Magic Wormhole Duplicati Kopia BorgBackup Velero bup Backrest Duplicacy 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 Minarca BackupNinja Time Machine Eonvelope Yuno Archive Custom Backup Sosse HashBackup
Feature Kup Restic Category Backup & Recovery Backup & Recovery License GPL-2.0 BSD-2-Clause Language C++ Go Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 128 MB 256 MB Deployment binary binary, docker GitHub stars ★ 100 ★ 35,412 First released 2012 2015 Replaces Time Machine Backblaze, Carbonite
Why pick each one
Choose Kup if… Released under the GPL-2.0 license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly Written in C++ Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM Kup details Choose Restic if… Strong encryption Efficient deduplication Wide backend support Restic details
Frequently asked questions Is Kup or Restic better? Neither is universally better. Restic has the larger community, while Kup is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Kup and Restic free and open-source? Yes. Kup is licensed under GPL-2.0 and Restic under BSD-2-Clause. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Kup and Restic with Docker? Kup: check the project docs for container support. Restic: yes.