Compare the Top Free Server Backup Software as of April 2025

What is Free Server Backup Software?

Server backup software provides tools for backing up and restoring server data to ensure business continuity in the event of data loss, hardware failure, or disaster. These solutions typically offer automated backup schedules, incremental or full backups, and the ability to store data both locally and in cloud storage for redundancy. Server backup software helps businesses secure critical data, including system configurations, files, applications, and databases, enabling quick recovery. Many solutions include features such as encryption, compression, and deduplication to optimize storage usage and enhance security. With robust disaster recovery options, these tools are essential for maintaining uptime and minimizing the impact of unexpected data loss. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Server Backup software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Percona Backup for MongoDB
    Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. Percona Backup for MongoDB supports Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB Community v3.6 or higher with MongoDB Replication enabled. Percona Backup for MongoDB is an alternative for users who want a fully supported community backup tool, but do not want to pay for MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager. With easy command-line interface, you can perform consistent backup/restore of clusters and non-sharded replica sets, and improve cluster backup consistency. This saves you time and effort if you are implementing MongoDB backups for the first time.
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    Starting Price: free
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    Percona XtraBackup
    Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure backups of InnoDB, XtraDB, and HailDB storage engines on transactional systems, so that applications remain fully available during planned maintenance windows. Percona XtraBackup can perform streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) preserves, secures, and protects data and revenue streams by providing the highest level of availability for your business-critical applications. PXC helps you increase efficiency, eliminate license fees, and lower your total cost of investment, helping you meet budget constraints. Our integrated tools enable you to optimize, maintain, and monitor your cluster. This ensures you get the most out of your MySQL environment.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Vinchin Backup & Recovery
    Vinchin Backup & Recovery, a comprehensive next-generation backup solution self-developed by Vinchin, supports the world’s most mainstream virtual environments including VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, XCP-ng, oVirt, RHV, Oracle OLVM, Sangfor HCl, OpenStack, Huawei FusionCompute(Xen Based), H3C CAS/UIS, ZStack, Proxmox, database including Oracle DB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Postgres Pro, MariaDB, Windows and Linux physical machines, file shares/NAS, and supports cross-platforms recovery or migration, backup verification, cloud archive, offsite copy, ransomware protection and other data protection features. It prevents the loss of critical business data due to human misoperation, viruses, attacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, wars, etc.
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    Veeam Data Platform
    #1 Global Leader in Data Resilience How we keep businesses worldwide up and running: From secure backups to intelligent data insights, Veeam Data Platform is built to handle the complexities of modern data management. Your data, protected, recoverable, free, and smart — just the way it should be. Veeam offers a simple yet powerful data management platform that goes beyond backup, providing businesses with reliable data protection, orchestrated recovery, and streamlined data management. With Veeam, businesses gain peace of mind knowing their data is secure, always available, and easily recoverable, empowering organizations to achieve true data resilience.
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    BDRSuite

    BDRSuite

    Vembu Technologies

    BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure. BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.
    Starting Price: $1.20/month
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    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers complete data protection for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, Windows and Linux physical machines and servers, files shares/NAS, Oracle database, and Microsoft 365. You can install the NAKIVO solution on Linux and Windows OS, or deploy it as a pre-configured virtual appliance (VA) or Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can also install the solution on NAS to create a cost-efficient and fast backup appliance. NAKIVO Backup & Replication includes advanced disaster recovery functionality with Site Recovery and Real-Time Replication for VMware. In addition, you can protect backups from ransomware using built-in cybersecurity features like immutability and pre-recovery malware scans.
    Starting Price: $229/ socket; $25 workload/y
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    Syncrify

    Syncrify

    Synametrics Technologies

    Syncrify is a private-cloud backup software allowing multiple customer machines to backup folders/files to a central repository within its own enterprise. The comprehensive, multi-platform data protection solution provides 100% security and allows customers to access their files from anywhere at any time. Syncrify also offers across-the-board folder synchronization and an incremental backup feature that intelligently recognizes small changes to larger projects, thereby making backup jobs run faster and more smoothly. Syncrify’s multi-tier backup software has the ability to transfer a modified part within a file, called a delta. By dividing a file into multiple blocks and computing checksum on both ends, Syncrify allows for users to transfer data in an efficient and secure manner. Geared toward a multi-user environment, Syncrify is well suited for situations where source and destination are far apart, like across the Internet.
    Starting Price: $49.00/one-time
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    Bacula Enterprise

    Bacula Enterprise

    Bacula Systems

    Bacula Enterprise delivers Physical, Virtual, Container and Hybrid Cloud Backup & Recovery software for the Modern Data Center - all from a single platform. Designed for medium and large organizations, Bacula Enterprise backup and recovery software brings unique innovation, modern architecture, business value benefits and low cost of ownership. Bacula Enterprise corporate data backup software solution uses exclusive technologies that increase the interoperability, power, flexibility and functionality of Bacula Enterprise into a wide range of IT environments such as enterprise data centers, managed service providers, software vendors or cloud providers. Thousands of organizations worldwide use Bacula Enterprise in mission-critical environments, including NASA, Texas A&M University, Unicredit, Swisscom, Sky, and many more. Bacula provides additional security features over other vendors and offers advanced, hybrid Cloud connectivity to Amazon, S3, Google, Oracle and many more.
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    SimpleBackups

    SimpleBackups

    SimpleBackups

    SimpleBackups is an all-in-one website & database backup automation service. With extensive support to databases like: MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, and many cloud storage options to securely dump and store backups to including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze, Wasabi, Dropbox, Filebase, etc. SimpleBackups simplifies the website & database backups process. It detects failures and notifies you when backups fail or when they are expected to fail. It also fully automates the backup creation process by using the automation features and the API. We cater to developers, startups, and web agencies, with the option to start for free.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Appranix

    Appranix

    Appranix

    Appranix empowers enterprises to achieve cloud application resilience against any cloud application downtime. Average ransomware attack costs 4.54M USD and takes about 26 days to recover. 14% of cloud application downtime occurs due to misconfigurations. Appranix's unique approach delivers unprecedented resilience for distributed and dynamic cloud workloads. Our patented continuous cloud infrastructure backup, cloud-native data backup and replication along with automated recovery-as-code capabilities significantly reduce recovery time and human intervention after a cyber disaster or cloud service or region failure. Appranix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and EMA Top 3 vendor. Our SaaS platform is SOC II Type II certified and available on AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, IBM/Redhat marketplaces. Join leading CTOs, CIOs, and cloud operations teams who trust Appranix to deliver the resilience they need to thrive in today's digital world.
    Starting Price: $25/unit/month
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    AOMEI Cyber Backup
    Easily manage backups of all devices with one console. Fully protect virtual machines of VMware and Hyper-V. 1-click to backup Microsoft SQL Server databases. Works for mainstream types of virtual machines, covering VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Tested thousands of times in different environments with backup a success rate up to 99%. Flexibly allocate the amount of cloud-free space for backup only. Automatically backup system, disks by setting a schedule, and restore entire VMs, files, and objects in a flash. Optimal data backup & protection solution for Hyper-V 2012 R2, Hyper-V 2016, and 2019. Automatically backup Hyper-V virtual machines on regular basis, daily, weekly, monthly, event triggers, or a USB plug-in. Hot backup for Hyper-V VMs in real-time to ensure a 100% backup and restore with zero downtime. Incremental backup or differential backup to backup only changed files or folders on Hyper-V environments to save storage.
    Starting Price: $99.00/yearly
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    Asigra

    Asigra

    Asigra

    Asigra helps IT teams increase their data recovery confidence through our unsurpassed reliability, security, manageability, and affordability in data protection software. Asigra's Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) software platform was designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to host and operate their own Backup as a Service solution. The easy to manage platform offers users the ability to white-label it to match your brand, while its breakthrough Hybrid Cloud Backup architecture combines a Cloud optimized scale-out architecture, a Cloud backup and recovery software platform, and a Cloud API and management system to help IT Teams seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services.
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    Infscape UrBackup Appliance
    A backup solution combining image and file backups for data safety, fast recovery time and long-term archival. Clients for Windows, MacOS and Linux, including changed block tracking for Windows, making it a one-stop solution for both workstation and server backup. Backup storage to local disks, AWS S3 (deduplicated, compressed and encrypted) or compatible storage, making it a very cost-effective way to backup cloud instances or on-premise servers/workstations. Appliance to appliance backup replication for additional data-safety or off-site backups for on-premise appliances.
    Starting Price: $20 per month
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    Cloud Protection Manager
    Cloud Protection Manager is an Enterprise-class backup & disaster recovery solution for EC2, allowing full automation of backup operations of EC2 instances, EBS volumes & RDS databases, with many features such as flexible backup policies, application-consistent backup, rapid recovery and much more. Instantly write down storage costs by importing legacy snaps to N2WS and archiving them to S3 or Glacier. Lower storage costs by archiving RDS snapshots to S3 or Glacier for long-term retention. Schedule automated DR drills the same way you’d schedule a policy. Restore a single file without having to restore the entire system.
    Starting Price: $199 per month
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    euBackups

    euBackups

    euBackups

    Cloud-hosted GDPR compliant business backups. Take the complexity out of backing up your systems, employee devices and critical data. Secure and robust infrastructure with German servers. Start your Free 30 day trial today.
    Starting Price: $26.75 per month
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    BKP365

    BKP365

    Spectra Technologies India

    An affordable, powerful and easy to use cloud backup solution for everyone, starting at Rs. 1.90 per GB / month. Lowest Cost per GB. Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Online Cloud Backup Services in India - GDPR & Privacy Compliant. data backup solutions in India. Smart File, Folder & SQL Backup. Setup and forget, backup in auto. Desktop agents to deploy, web console to manage. Files stored forever, option of hot, cold or deep archive. AES 256 encrypted backup tech. Backup local, external and network drives. File versioning by default. Create users for backing up computers and servers. You can also bulk import the users. Set the backup policies as per requirement. Download the agent from your account. Install & select the files and folders you wish to backup. Add the PST Files if you have. Your data is securely packed up and transmitted at a set time interval. (say 30 min). All the backups are incremental.
    Starting Price: $0.02 per month
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    EnduraData EDpCloud
    Cross-platform real-time file replication for Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AIX, OpenBSD, and more. EnduraData EDpCloud replicates and synchronizes data between different operating systems, geographic locations, cloud providers.
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    NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
    Enterprise-grade storage wherever your apps are. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security and compliance. Easily calculate your storage costs on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with Cloud Volumes ONTAP using this free, simplified and easy to navigate calculator.
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