Areca backup
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| developer | Olivier Petrucci Internationalization: Stephane Brunel |
| Current version | 7.5 (August 26, 2015) |
| operating system | All operating systems with Java runtime environment |
| programming language | Java |
| category | Data backup software |
| License | GPL |
| areca-backup.org | |
Areca Backup is free data backup software written in Java and is published under the GPL v2.0 license.
Areca Backup has apparently not been further developed since August 2015.
Properties (selection)
- ZIP / ZIP64 data compression
- AES 128 & AES 256 file encryption
- Filter for file selection (by file extension, directory, size, date ...)
- Merging archives
- Simulation of backups
- FTP and FTPS support
- SFTP support
Types of backups
- Full backup: With a full backup , all selected files are saved in an archive file, regardless of whether or not they have been changed since the last backup.
- Incremental backup: With an incremental backup , only those files are transferred to the archive file that have been changed since the last backup.
- Differential backup: With a differential backup , only the files that have been changed since the last full backup are transferred to the archive file .
To determine whether a file has been changed, Areca uses the file size and the time of the last change - or the file content. On request, incremental and differential backups can be created delta-coded to save space .