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Open-source alternatives to CrashPlan

Two hand-approved projects in our catalog replace CrashPlan. Both are backup & recovery software. restic has the most GitHub stars (36.9K). Tick what matters to you and the list re-sorts so the closest fits come first.

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The alternatives

Pick what matters below. For now the two alternatives are in order of GitHub stars.

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restic

Backup & recovery

Encrypted, verifiable command-line backups to the storage you choose.

  • Encrypts every backup and treats the storage location as untrusted.
  • Uploads only changed data and removes duplicates before writing to storage.
  • Restores whole snapshots or single paths, or mounts backups as a folder.
Meets: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceDoes not meet: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in GoDoes not meet: In a stack
36.9K starsBSD-2-ClauseGoLatest release Jul 2026Website ↗Full profile →

Kopia

Backup & recovery

Encrypted, deduplicated backups of your files to storage you choose.

  • Encrypts all data on your machine before upload, using AES-256 or ChaCha20.
  • Stores identical content only once, so repeat snapshots stay small.
  • Policies set the snapshot schedule, exclusions, retention and compression.
Meets: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceDoes not meet: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in GoMeets: In a stack
14.5K starsApache-2.0GoLatest release Jun 2026Website ↗Full profile →

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