Areca Backup

Areca Backup is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.

Areca Backup includes a backup engine, as well as a graphical user interface and a command-line interface.

The application includes the following features:

Areca also provides all tools needed to handle your archives:

Storage modes Areca can handle multiple storage modes:

Backup types Areca can handle the following types of backups:

Areca uses the file's size and 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.

Areca is downloadable pre-packaged for Linux and Windows 2000/Windows XP and Windows Vista. But it also runs on any other operating system, provided that a Java Runtime Environment has been installed (version 1.4.2 or later). It has been translated to: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.