Borgmatic UI

The strongest backup engine on Linux, with an interface on top

Borg is what people reach for when the backups have to be right. Every unique block of data is stored exactly once, so a month of daily archives costs a fraction of a month of copies. Everything is compressed, and encrypted on your side before it leaves the machine. Incrementals move only what changed. Archives are browsable like a filesystem, and old ones prune themselves on the schedule you set.

Borgmatic UI puts a web interface over all of it:

• A wizard for every backup job — sources, repositories, retention, compression, encryption and schedule, validated before anything can run
• Backup targets (Repositories) anywhere — a local disk, another server over SSH or SFTP, Rclone remotes and S3-compatible storage, with one backup writing to several
• Live progress and readable logs, instead of parsing output after the fact
• Restores from a file browser — open an archive, pick what you need, send it wherever you want
• Auto-discovery of databases running in Docker on the same host
• Failure notifications through Apprise, ntfy or email
• Director mode in the commercial edition, to run all of this across a fleet of servers from one console

The point of the interface is not that it looks nicer. It is that the person who has to restore something at 3 a.m. does not have to be the person who set the backups up.

Backups of Git repositories

Repositories are the crown jewels of a software company, and the industry has quietly accepted that they live on someone else’s servers with no independent copy. Accounts get locked. Repositories get deleted, sometimes by an AI agent with more confidence than judgement.

The commercial edition backs up complete repositories from GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and self-hosted Git servers — a whole organisation at a time, as bare mirrors, as working copies, or both — and restores them back to any of those platforms through a wizard that handles credentials, naming and connectivity testing separately from your backup credentials.

The existing alternatives are cloud-only, expensive, and require handing your source code to another vendor. This runs on your hardware, encrypted with your keys.

Your databases, dumped properly and versioned

A file copy of a running database is not a backup — it is a file that may or may not restore. Borgmatic UI takes a real dump from a live connection, on a schedule, versioned in the same archive as everything else, so what you get back is consistent.

PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB and SQLite work in every edition, and databases running in Docker on the same host are discovered for you. The commercial edition adds Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL with cloud-friendly authentication. Every connection can be tested before you save it.

Combined with Rclone UI you can also mount cloud storage and back it up in a read-only pull fashion — which is how backups should work, since a compromised source cannot then reach into the backup.