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vykar

Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust — with friendly YAML config, a desktop GUI, and support for S3, custom REST and SFTP storage.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

vykar is a backup program.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: incremental backups and deduplication, data encryption.

Services and protocols mentioned: SFTP, S3 and WebDAV.

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
  • “Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust — with friendly YAML config, a desktop GUI, and support for S3, custom REST and SFTP storage.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust — with friendly YAML config, a desktop GUI, and support for S3, custom REST and SFTP storage.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Encryption with AES-256-GCM or ChaCha20-Poly1305 (auto-selected) and Argon2id key derivation” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

vykar 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: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub borgbase/vykar (GPL-3.0-only)

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