Best Self-Hosted Backup Apps
Discover the best open-source self-hosted backup solutions to protect your home lab. Explore dedicated self-hosted backup servers, automated local snapshots, and encrypted self-hosted cloud backup software for complete data ownership.
Backrest
Schedule, browse, and restore Restic backups from a web dashboard with S3, Backblaze B2, SFTP, and rclone support.
Duplicacy
A self-hosted backup tool with lock-free deduplication for local drives, cloud storage, or SFTP.
Immich
The open source Google Photos alternative with automatic mobile backup, facial recognition, and full privacy on your own hardware.
Portabase
Back up the databases behind your home apps, such as Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB, from one dashboard to local disks, S3, SFTP or Google Drive.
rclone
A command-line program, described as rsync for cloud storage, that syncs, mounts and encrypts files across more than 70 storage providers.