Highlights
- Graphical front-end for BorgBackup repositories on a local disk or on a remote host over SSH.
- Profiles hold source folders, exclusion patterns, compression choice and a scheduled run time.
- Retention policy prunes archives down to a chosen number of daily, weekly and monthly copies.
- Archives mount read-only through FUSE, so single files are restored by copying them out.
- Repositories remain readable by the Borg command-line tool, which must be installed for Vorta to work.
About this application
Vorta is a desktop front-end for BorgBackup. Borg itself is a command-line tool that stores deduplicated, compressed and optionally encrypted archives in a repository; Vorta puts a Qt window around it so that repositories, source folders and schedules are set up by clicking rather than by writing cron entries and shell wrappers.
A profile holds one repository plus the directories to back up, exclusion patterns for caches and build output, the compression choice, and a retention policy deciding how many daily, weekly and monthly archives survive pruning. Repositories can sit on a local disk or on a remote host reached over SSH. Backups can run on a schedule, and progress is reported from a tray icon.
Existing archives are listed with their sizes and creation times. An archive can be mounted read-only through FUSE, so recovering a file means copying it out with a file manager, and two archives can be compared to see what changed between them. Vorta does not replace Borg: Borg has to be present, and the repositories it creates stay readable by the plain command-line tool.
Where to get it
Linux
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From the publisher
Install from a terminal
flatpak install flathub com.borgbase.Vorta
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