⚠️ areca-backup.org⚠️ is no longer the official site at least for this Areca fork.
Areca Backup basically allows you to select a set of files / directories to backup, choose where and how (as a simple file copy or as a zip archive) they will be stored, and configure post-backup actions (like sending backup reports by email or launching custom shell scripts).
It has been designed to ?
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Be as simple as possible to set up :
No complex configuration files to edit
Your backup configuration (stored as an XML file) can be edited with Areca's graphical user interface. -
Be as versatile as possible :
Areca can use advanced backup modes (like delta backup) or simply produce a basic copy of your source files as a standard directory or zip archive. -
Allow you to interact with your archives :
Browse your archives, track and recover a specific version of a file, merge a set of archives into a single one, etc.
- Multiplatform
- Compression (Zip & Zip64).
- Encryption (AES128 & AES256).
- Storage on local hard drive, SSD, NVMe, network drive, USB drive, FTP, FTPs or SFTP server.
- File filters (by extension, subdirectory, regular expression, size, date, status, with AND/OR/NOT logical operators).
- Incremental, differential and full backup support.
- Support for delta backup.
- ACL and Extended attributes support (Linux only)
- Support several languages (br, cn, cs, da, nl, sv, tw, de, en, es, fr, hu, it, ja, pt, ru).
- Archives merges.
- As of date recovery: Areca allows you to recover your archives (or single files) as of a specific date.
- Transaction mechanism.
- Backup reports (disk or email).
- Pre and Post backup scripts.
- Files permissions, symbolic links and named pipes can be stored and recovered (Linux only).
- Backup Wizards
- Plugins.
- CLI (Command-Line Interface)
- GUI
(Graphical User Interface)
- Archives content explorer.
- File version tracking (creation / modifications / deletion).
- Archive description.
- Backup simulation.
- User's actions history (archives deletion, merges, backups, recoveries).
- Areca takes the look and feel of the underlying operative system.
Mirrors of no longer available documentation from:
- areca-backup.org (Olivier PETRUCCI's Areca official site, no the current one)
- arecavss.com (Volume Shadow Copy plugin)