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24 alternatives to Walrus

🔥 Fast, Secure and Reliable System Backup.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Walrus launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1WA
    Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust▲160

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    DBackedâ–˛148

    Simple, secure database backup as a service 🛠️

    2018 · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    Dumperâ–˛64

    Offsite backup for databases

    2017 · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    Postgresusâ–˛35

    Open source PostgreSQL backup tool

    Dec 2025 · its alternatives →

  5. 5
    Barebackupsâ–˛78

    Super-simple database backups

    2020 · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Acronis True Imageâ–˛81

    #1 personal backup software for all your important data

    2019 · its alternatives →

  7. 7
    Corsoâ–˛90

    Free, secure, open-source backup for Microsoft 365

    2023 · its alternatives →

  8. 8SP
    Serverless Postgresâ–˛159

    This is a MVP for Serverless Postgres. 1/ It uses Fly.io[0], which can automatically pause your database after all connections are released (and start it again when new connections join). 2/ It uses Oriole[1], a Postgres extension with experimental support for S3 / Decoupled Storage[2]. 3/ It uses Tigris[3], Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage. Oriole will automatically backup the data to Tigris using background workers. I wouldn't recommend using this in production, but I think it's in a good spot to provoke some discussion and ideas. You can get it running…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9
    Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore▲49

    Proves your PostgreSQL and MySQL backups actually restore, before you find out the hard way. - ahmadpiran/restoredrill

    15d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10RC
    Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups▲132

    2018 · relicabackup.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11SA
    Simple and Secure Personal Backupsâ–˛20

    spb is a CLI backing up your local folders into S3 while encrypting everything client side.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12LC
    Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archiveâ–˛120

    Hi, most people (hopefully) have local backups. However, when that backup fails, it is good to have a backup stored somewhere off-site. In the old days you would ship physical drives/tapes, which is cumbersome, costly, and slow. With fast upload speeds, it is now possible to upload your data to the cloud. I have found S3 Glacier Deep Archive to be a great solution for this: - It is very cheap ($1/TB/month for US region) - Very reliable (99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones) However, usability out of the box is not that great, I'm not aware of…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13DO
    Databasus – open-source backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB▲10

    I had a post in the start of December about Postgresus 2.0: self hosted tool for PostgreSQL. Since then the project changed the name and added support of other databases: MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB. Website - https://databasus.com GitHub - https://github.com/databasus/databasus Main features: - Scheduled backups for multiple PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB databases - Storage to S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Drive, Azure Blob, NAS, SFTP, rclone, etc. - Notifications about backup status via email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, MS Teams and customizable webhooks -…

    Dec 2025 · databasus.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14
    Vault3â–˛144

    A safe, decentralized vault for your files

    2022 · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    Monitaurâ–˛144

    Datadog for Web3

    2023 · its alternatives →

  16. 16
    Cloudbackâ–˛91

    GitHub repository backup service

    2021 · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    Bakup.ioâ–˛83

    Agent based database, file and server backup infrastructure

    2021 · its alternatives →

  18. 18
    BackHubâ–˛77

    Backup your GitHub Repositories

    2018 · its alternatives →

  19. 19
    Tunnexâ–˛4

    Encrypted Postgres & Mongo backups, from your desktop.

    May 2026 · tunnex.biz · its alternatives →

  20. 20PC
    PGBackup.com, Postgres backup as a serviceâ–˛46

    2016 · pgbackup.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21SL
    Simple Linux Backupsâ–˛30

    2014 · jarvys.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22CS
    CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT)▲66

    We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23
    Postgresus (PostgreSQL backups)â–˛7

    Scheduled PostgresSQL backups and PostgreSQL monitoring tool

    2025 · its alternatives →

  24. 24BS
    Backup Schedulerâ–˛21

    Cheap and dirty solution to backup a specific folder on macOS to S3. I use this to backup my Calibre library.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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