Areca Backup was an Open Source personal file backup software developed in Java. It was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.

Features

Areca Backup included a backup engine, as well as a graphical user interface and a command-line interface. The application included the following features: Areca also provided all tools needed to handle your archives: Storage modes Areca could handle multiple storage modes: Backup types Areca could handle the following types of backups: Areca used the file's size and last modification time to detect modified files. If one of these attributes is modified (whatever its value is), the file is flagged as modified. This allows a fast detection of modified files. Areca was downloadable pre-packaged for Linux and Windows 2000/Windows XP and Windows Vista. But it also ran on any other operating system, provided that a Java Runtime Environment has been installed (version 1.4.2 or later). It was translated to: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

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