Cloud storage

Arq Premium alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

duplicati/duplicati14,865licence unclearEncrypted, deduplicated backups to cloud storage with scheduling and a web-based GUI.Open on GitHub rustic-rs/rustic3,169Apache-2.0Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups with object storage support and local metadata management.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished cross-platform GUI with integrated web access
Arq-managed integrated cloud storage and billing
Deep OS integration (e.g., APFS snapshot support)
Decades of product hardening, customer support, and edge-case handling
Built-in multi-destination orchestration and enterprise polish

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Arq Premium, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.