Box Backup
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Box Backup, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Box Backup's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Box Backup | Free | open source · self-hosted backup server |
The facts
Each one read from Box Backup's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Backup modes
- It offers backup behavior optimized for document or server backup.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Backup scope
- filechecked 19 Sep 2026
- Components
- The system includes a backup store server, a client daemon, and a query and restore tool.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compression
- Files on the server are compressed to reduce storage use.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Computer backup
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Connection security
- TLS encrypts connections and uses server and client certificates to authenticate both sides.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- The site says TLS is used to encrypt connections and authenticate servers and clients, while stored file data uses AES and metadata uses Blowfish.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File history
- Older file versions and deleted files remain available on the server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Incremental backups
- The client detects file changes, encrypts them, and sends only the changed portions to the server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Incremental transfers
- The client sends only changes within files to the server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Key handling
- The site says users must keep a 1k key file safe because server data cannot be decoded without it.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Known limitation
- The installation page warns that housekeeping may remove deleted client files quickly and advises alternative backup arrangements for archived files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Box Backup is an open source, automatic online backup system.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Restore modes
- filechecked 19 Sep 2026
- Restore tool
- The software includes bbackupquery, a tool for querying and restoring backups.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Self-hosted storage
- Backed-up data is stored as files on a filesystem, and the project says no tape or archive devices are required.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Server backup
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Server setup
- The server software runs on a Unix server; the project says Windows is highly not recommended for servers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The project invites users to its mailing list for release announcements and discussion.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support and documentation
- The project points users to a user-contributed wiki for documentation and a mailing list for announcements and discussion.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Version history
- Old versions and deleted files remain available, with older versions stored as changes from the current version.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Client platforms
- The project lists Linux, Windows, macOS, and other Unix systems as supported client platforms.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- The installation wiki lists packages for Debian, FreeBSD, Windows, Gentoo Linux, Arch Linux, and RPM-based systems, and source compilation instructions for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- linux,windows,macos,self_hostedchecked 19 Sep 2026
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