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CLUSTER BACKUP-GRAPHICAL-INTERFACE · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-07-04

Desktop backup GUI managers

These six desktop applications provide graphical interfaces for configuring, scheduling, and restoring backups to remote or local storage, with several specifically targeting Borg repositories. Entries appear sporadically from April 2014 through June 2026, with a notable gap between 2023 and 2026 and the last two entries arriving in consecutive months. Traction leaders are restic-box, LUNION-SECURE-BACKOFFICE-SAAS, and emborg, each showing zero stars, indicating minimal community adoption so far.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2014: 1JUL 2016: 1SEP 2019: 1JUN 2023: 1MAY 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
APR 2014OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01KopiaLens1★11 daysliveDesktop GUI for backup repositories that manages snapshots, deduplication, disk usage, and self-hosted backup operations.
  2. 02restic-box0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop tray applet that provides a graphical interface to configure and run backups to remote storage destinations.
  3. 03emborg0★3 moliveopen sourceGraphical front-end for Borg backup software that lets users create, schedule, and restore backup archives from a simple interface.
  4. 04bacula-bat0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceGraphical management interface for a network backup system that monitors, schedules, and controls backup and restore jobs.
  5. 05borg-explorer-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that provides a graphical interface for browsing and managing Borg backup repositories.
  6. 06tarsnap-gui0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCross-platform desktop application that provides a graphical interface for managing remote backup snapshots.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.