This independent development (fork) of Areca Backup attempts to extend its lifespan by fixing bugs and adding some new features while keeping its simplicity.
Areca was originally developed by Olivier PETRUCCI (aventin): https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/
Features
- Integrated file version searcher from available backups that supports regular expressions.
- Incremental, differential and full backup support.
- Encryption.
- Compression.
- FTP, FTPs or SFTP.
- Pre and post backup scripts.
- File filters.
- Backup reports (disk or email).
License
GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)Follow Areca Backup 8 (2025)
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After over a decade, Areca is still my go-to local backup solution. Features I love: - Incremental file backup history. - Great logical view of a backup's file structure. - Able to restore individual files/dirs with ease. - Able to open zipped backup files directly in Total Commander. - Able to make file/dir exclusions for backup tasks to save space (browser cache etc). - Great logs in case of failure (very rare). - XML-based config so relatively easy to manually edit when needed. Drawbacks are its dependence on Java JRE and its slightly old-school UI, as well as having to configure the Task Scheduler myself. But these are all minor things. A dark theme would be greatly appreciated :)