Areca Backup

Areca Backup is an Open Source backup solution designed for personal use on Linux & Windows machines. Developed in the Java programming language, Areca Backup is available under the General Public License (GPL) v2 and allows its users to select a set of files, & folders, to be backed up. You can specify backup location and configure post-backup actions (like sending backup reports by email or launching custom shell scripts) after taking backup in ZIP/ZIP64 compression or AES 128 & AES 256 encryption which are readable by WinZip or other archivers.

Areca supports full, incremental & differential backups and uses the file's size & last modification time to detect modified files. If one of these attributes is modified (whatever its value is), the file is flagged as modified. This allows a fast detection of modified files.

The most important features of Areca Backup:

• Simple to set up
  The configuration of Areca Backup is stored in an XML file which can be edited with Areca's graphical user interface.
• Versatile
  Areca Backup 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.
• Interaction
  Track different versions of a specific file, browse your archives, recover or view specific files, merge a set of archives... and much more.