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abb-agent

Unofficial Linux agent for Synology Active Backup for Business: any distro and kernel (7.x too), written in Rust, first-class btrfs, ext2/3/4, fast incrementals, bare-metal restore.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

abb-agent is a backup program, available on Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository: incremental backups and deduplication.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “An Active Backup for Business agent that runs on any Linux distribution and any kernel, 7.x included: written in Rust, no kernel module to build, nothing to break on the next update.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It talks to an unmodified ABB server: the device shows up in the ABB console like any other physical server, backups are versioned, deduplicated and restorable with Synology's tools.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

abb-agent is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub rylos/abb-agent (GPL-3.0-only)

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