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Work · November 9, 2018

Vorta

A Boring Open Source GUI for BorgBackup (Attic)

Vorta launched on November 9, 2018 with 4 votes.

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What it does

BorgBackup is a very capable backup tool, I use on all my servers. It does the advanced stuff that's needed for backups today. Like encryption, deduplication, compression and validation. There was no complete GUI for it, so I made one. It's intentionally built on a boring stack to keep it simple and basic. It's also open source.

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