Burp
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Burp, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Burp's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Burp (open source) | Free | No charge · AGPLv3 · No warranty stated |
The facts
Each one read from Burp's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Author and support context
- The main author is Graham Keeling, who says he works on Burp in his spare time and invites donations to support continued work.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Backup controls
- Features include scheduling, continuing interrupted backups, multiple retention periods, and automatic client upgrades.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Backup scope
- mixedchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Computer backup
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Downloads
- The download page lists version 3.3.0 as latest, 3.2.0 as stable, and says packages are available for popular Linux distributions and Homebrew for Mac.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Efficient backups
- Burp supports delta differencing with librsync, storage data deduplication, and network rate limiting.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Burp supports SSL-encrypted client/server communications and client-side file encryption; the site notes that client-side encryption turns off delta differencing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- File support
- Burp backs up and restores files, directories, links, permissions, timestamps, Linux and FreeBSD ACLs and extended attributes, and Windows EFS files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Notifications and monitoring
- Burp supports backup success or failure emails, a daily backup summary email, and a live ncurses server monitor.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Open source
- Burp is open source free software released under the AGPLv3 licence.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Burp is a network backup and restore program designed to reduce network traffic and the space used by each backup.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Restore modes
- mixedchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Server and client
- Server mode runs on Unix-based systems, while client mode runs on Windows and Unix-based systems.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Verification
- The download page provides the author's GPG public key for verifying releases.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Warranty
- The site says Burp comes with no warranty and users are responsible for testing it and ensuring it works for them.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Web interface
- The separately named Burp-UI provides client and backup listings, a live backup monitor, backup-tree browsing, and graphical reports.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- linux,windows,macoschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Windows snapshots
- Burp supports Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), listed for Windows XP R2 and newer.checked 12 Oct 2026
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