Areca Backup

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Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It is released under the General Public License (GPL) v2.
It is divided into :

  • A backup engine
  • A command-line interface
  • A graphical user interface

[edit] Backup Engine

The backup engine includes :

  • ZIP compression (32 bit algorithm)
  • Triple DES & AES 128 encryption
  • Backup filters (by extension, subdirectory, regular expression, size, date, status, usage)
  • Incremental backup support
  • Archives merges
  • As of date recovery
  • Transaction mechanism
  • Unix file permissions backup / recovery
  • Email reports
  • Backup simulation

[edit] Project

The project can be monitored at SourceForge or on its web site