Duplicati vs Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition
Two of the top three backup tools, compared rule by rule on published facts.
In short
- Duplicati has 86 points and Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition 84, 2 apart on our backup software rules.
- Duplicati earns more on where backups go; Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition earns more on what it backs up.
- First-year price, one PC: Duplicati $24/yr, Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition $19.95/yr.
- Only Duplicati meets: backups shielded from ransomware.
- Only Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition meets: bootable rescue media and restore to different hardware.
Duplicati86/100 #2 of 9
Best for: People who want free encrypted backups to cloud storage they already pay for.
Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition84/100 #3 of 9
Best for: Home users who want a free system image backup to a local or external drive.
Points by group
| Group | Duplicati | Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition |
|---|---|---|
| What it backs up of 30 | 22 | 30 |
| Where backups go of 20 | 20 | 10 |
| Safety and recovery of 25 | 19 | 19 |
| Price of 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Total | 86 | 84 |
Rule by rule
What each vendor publishes, and the points it earns. Sources are on each product page.
| Rule (points) | Duplicati | Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Full system image (8) | Yes 8 | Yes 8 |
| File and folder backup (4) | Yes 4 | Yes 4 |
| Incremental backups (6) | Yes 6 | Yes 6 |
| Scheduled backups (4) | Yes 4 | Yes 4 |
| Bootable rescue media (8) | Not published 0 | Yes 8 |
| Destinations (20) | Local or USB drive, Network share or NAS, Vendor's own cloud, Other cloud storage 20 | Local or USB drive, Network share or NAS 10 |
| Encrypted backups (7) | Yes 7 | Yes 7 |
| Backups shielded from ransomware (6) | Yes 6 | Not published 0 |
| Restore to different hardware (6) | Not published 0 | Yes 6 |
| Versions and retention rules (6) | Yes 6 | Yes 6 |
| Free edition (10) | Yes 10 | Yes 10 |
| First-year price, one PC (8) | $24/yr 8 | $19.95/yr 8 |
| One-time licence (7) | Yes 7 | Yes 7 |
Duplicati
Duplicati suits people who want free, encrypted backups to storage they choose, from a USB drive to Amazon S3 or OneDrive. It sends only changed blocks, runs on a schedule and can lock backups against deletion on supported clouds. Full-disk backups are documented, but Duplicati does not describe its own rescue media, so a full restore starts from separate recovery media.
Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition
The free Community Edition suits home users who want a system image and a bootable rescue stick at no cost. Paying for Hard Disk Manager Advanced adds disk copying, partitioning and email alerts, and it is sold as a perpetual licence as well as a subscription. The catch: Paragon lists no cloud destination, and the Community Edition is for non-commercial use only.
All facts, prices and sources for Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition
Both products are scored by the same rules: how we score backup tools.