Compare the Top Free Database Backup Software as of April 2025

What is Free Database Backup Software?

Database backup software solutions enable organizations to back up their databases so that they can restore the databases if necessary. Database backup software is essential for companies of all kinds that want to protect against corrupted data, broken hardware, or employee missteps. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Database Backup software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Percona Backup for MongoDB
    Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. Percona Backup for MongoDB supports Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB Community v3.6 or higher with MongoDB Replication enabled. Percona Backup for MongoDB is an alternative for users who want a fully supported community backup tool, but do not want to pay for MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager. With easy command-line interface, you can perform consistent backup/restore of clusters and non-sharded replica sets, and improve cluster backup consistency. This saves you time and effort if you are implementing MongoDB backups for the first time.
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    Starting Price: free
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    Percona XtraBackup
    Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure backups of InnoDB, XtraDB, and HailDB storage engines on transactional systems, so that applications remain fully available during planned maintenance windows. Percona XtraBackup can perform streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) preserves, secures, and protects data and revenue streams by providing the highest level of availability for your business-critical applications. PXC helps you increase efficiency, eliminate license fees, and lower your total cost of investment, helping you meet budget constraints. Our integrated tools enable you to optimize, maintain, and monitor your cluster. This ensures you get the most out of your MySQL environment.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Veeam Data Platform
    #1 Global Leader in Data Resilience How we keep businesses worldwide up and running: From secure backups to intelligent data insights, Veeam Data Platform is built to handle the complexities of modern data management. Your data, protected, recoverable, free, and smart — just the way it should be. Veeam offers a simple yet powerful data management platform that goes beyond backup, providing businesses with reliable data protection, orchestrated recovery, and streamlined data management. With Veeam, businesses gain peace of mind knowing their data is secure, always available, and easily recoverable, empowering organizations to achieve true data resilience.
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    SQL Planner

    SQL Planner

    SQL Planner

    Access SQL Planner application from any device, anywhere and manage your SQL server (Automation of SQL health analysis, monitoring, alerts, backup and validation, index de-fragmentation, stats maintenance, automation) with ease. SQL Planner can be installed on your local machine having Microsoft windows operating system, and provide SQL server credential (ensure it has Server view state permission or higher privilege, preferably Sysadmin) which has to be monitored or analyzed for health. SQL Planner starts collecting performance and server usage data very efficiently, ensuring your SQL runs smoothly, it also alerts you by email on several critical factor when encountered such as continuous high CPU, RAM, disk usage, database or drive space usage etc. SQL Planner instance can be used from browser (Firefox Mozilla preferred).
    Starting Price: 0
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    BDRSuite

    BDRSuite

    Vembu Technologies

    BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure. BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.
    Starting Price: $1.20/month
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    DBSync

    DBSync

    DBSync

    Start integrating your apps with clicks, not code. Prebuilt templates and an easy-to-use interface will have you up and running within an hour. DBSync Cloud Workflow has a robust integration platform that can be run on SaaS-based or on cloud. DBSync Cloud Workflow can be integrated into an API interface, laptops or desktops and mobile phones or tablets which facilitates ease for the user. Connect to Apps CRM's, Accounting systems, Popular Databases, Big Data like Cassandra, Hive, and more. We integrate any connectors easily by custom workflow. Leverage out-of-the-box integration Maps and Processes for common use cases of CRM to Accounting integration, Data replication and more. Use as is or extend to fit your needs. Develop, manage and automate business complex processes into simple workflows. Support for newer archiving technologies like Cassandra, Hive, Amazon RedShift, and more.
    Starting Price: $2400.00/year
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    Iperius Backup
    Iperius is able to create complete images of your computer disks (Drive Images), allowing a bare-metal restore of an entire system without having to reinstall programs or redo configurations, even on different hardware. You can also recover single files from the VHD/VHDX images. Iperius can perform FTP backups both in upload and download mode using the secure FTPS protocol with zip compression and AES encryption. These functions are ideal to perform online backups or to perform the automatic download, and thus backup of entire websites. Iperius is one of the best software packages on the market for backing up and restoring Exchange mail data. Export mailboxes to PST files, automatic truncation of logs, granular restore, block-level image backup mode. Unlimited mail server backups, even from a network with a single license. Can transfer backups to any destination: NAS, FTP, Cloud, etc… with compression and encryption.
    Starting Price: $30 one-time payment
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    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers complete data protection for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, Windows and Linux physical machines and servers, files shares/NAS, Oracle database, and Microsoft 365. You can install the NAKIVO solution on Linux and Windows OS, or deploy it as a pre-configured virtual appliance (VA) or Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can also install the solution on NAS to create a cost-efficient and fast backup appliance. NAKIVO Backup & Replication includes advanced disaster recovery functionality with Site Recovery and Real-Time Replication for VMware. In addition, you can protect backups from ransomware using built-in cybersecurity features like immutability and pre-recovery malware scans.
    Starting Price: $229/ socket; $25 workload/y
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    Clumio

    Clumio

    Clumio

    Clumio helps organizations simplify data protection in AWS. Its secure air-gapped SaaS solution protects from ransomware and enables organizations to achieve stringent compliance requirements, backup and restore data in minutes, and gain better visibility to optimize cloud storage costs. Clumio eliminates the need for complex capacity planning by automatically scheduling the expansion and contraction of resources as needed. You can define backup policies and monitor compliance to them in real-time across services such as Amazon EC2, EBS, and RDS. Clumio’s end-to-end encryption is always on. The user and key management design ensure full customer control over data access. The architecture handles all of the deduplication and data compression tasks as well as the fingerprint database and cataloging of all protected data. Start protecting your AWS data with Clumio in less than 15 minutes. Join a community of passionate users and try Clumio for free today.
    Starting Price: Free
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    dbForge Edge
    dbForge Edge is the newest Devart product - the multidatabase software solution covers all database-related jobs, allowing its users to accelerate the tasks' completion, save costs, and improve overall productivity. A set of powerful features applies to all most popular database management systems - MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Notice the most helpful features of dbForge Edge: Database design & development. Convert ER diagrams to actual databases or reverse-engineer databases. SQL coding assistance. Visual query building. Query profiling. Database comparison & synchronization. Deploy changes to the target databases on different platforms. Data management. Data import/export. Data analysis and reporting. Database administration.
    Starting Price: $99.95
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    SimpleBackups

    SimpleBackups

    SimpleBackups

    SimpleBackups is an all-in-one website & database backup automation service. With extensive support to databases like: MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, and many cloud storage options to securely dump and store backups to including Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze, Wasabi, Dropbox, Filebase, etc. SimpleBackups simplifies the website & database backups process. It detects failures and notifies you when backups fail or when they are expected to fail. It also fully automates the backup creation process by using the automation features and the API. We cater to developers, startups, and web agencies, with the option to start for free.
    Starting Price: Free
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    MongoDB Atlas
    The most innovative cloud database service on the market, with unmatched data distribution and mobility across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built-in automation for resource and workload optimization, and so much more. MongoDB Atlas is the global cloud database service for modern applications. Deploy fully managed MongoDB across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with best-in-class automation and proven practices that guarantee availability, scalability, and compliance with the most demanding data security and privacy standards. The best way to deploy, run, and scale MongoDB in the cloud. MongoDB Atlas offers built-in security controls for all your data. Enable enterprise-grade features to integrate with your existing security protocols and compliance standards. With MongoDB Atlas, your data is protected with preconfigured security features for authentication, authorization, encryption, and more.
    Starting Price: $0.08/hour
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    Appranix

    Appranix

    Appranix

    Appranix empowers enterprises to achieve cloud application resilience against any cloud application downtime. Average ransomware attack costs 4.54M USD and takes about 26 days to recover. 14% of cloud application downtime occurs due to misconfigurations. Appranix's unique approach delivers unprecedented resilience for distributed and dynamic cloud workloads. Our patented continuous cloud infrastructure backup, cloud-native data backup and replication along with automated recovery-as-code capabilities significantly reduce recovery time and human intervention after a cyber disaster or cloud service or region failure. Appranix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and EMA Top 3 vendor. Our SaaS platform is SOC II Type II certified and available on AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, IBM/Redhat marketplaces. Join leading CTOs, CIOs, and cloud operations teams who trust Appranix to deliver the resilience they need to thrive in today's digital world.
    Starting Price: $25/unit/month
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    SQL Backup Master

    SQL Backup Master

    SQL Backup Master

    Backing up your SQL Server databases to the cloud shouldn't be complicated or expensive. SQL Backup Master comes to the rescue by providing an easy way to upload your database backups to one or more affordable (or free) cloud storage services. It also offers rich compression, encryption, scheduling, recovery, and notification services - so that you can stop worrying and get back to business. Back up to local folders, network folders, or attached storage devices. Back up to FTP servers with first-class FTP, SFTP, & FTPS support. Compress and encrypt valuable database backups. Runs automatically in the background as a system service. Execute custom SQL and batch scripts before and after backups. Provides easy-to-use database backup recovery support.
    Starting Price: $49.00 per computer
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    AOMEI Cyber Backup
    Easily manage backups of all devices with one console. Fully protect virtual machines of VMware and Hyper-V. 1-click to backup Microsoft SQL Server databases. Works for mainstream types of virtual machines, covering VMware, vSphere, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Tested thousands of times in different environments with backup a success rate up to 99%. Flexibly allocate the amount of cloud-free space for backup only. Automatically backup system, disks by setting a schedule, and restore entire VMs, files, and objects in a flash. Optimal data backup & protection solution for Hyper-V 2012 R2, Hyper-V 2016, and 2019. Automatically backup Hyper-V virtual machines on regular basis, daily, weekly, monthly, event triggers, or a USB plug-in. Hot backup for Hyper-V VMs in real-time to ensure a 100% backup and restore with zero downtime. Incremental backup or differential backup to backup only changed files or folders on Hyper-V environments to save storage.
    Starting Price: $99.00/yearly
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    Petti

    Petti

    Pyle Innovations

    Petti is a database backup tool with built-in cloud storage, protection, and monitoring. It requires only a one-time setup. Currently available for Microsoft SQL Server databases.
    Starting Price: $25/month
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    Asigra

    Asigra

    Asigra

    Asigra helps IT teams increase their data recovery confidence through our unsurpassed reliability, security, manageability, and affordability in data protection software. Asigra's Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) software platform was designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to host and operate their own Backup as a Service solution. The easy to manage platform offers users the ability to white-label it to match your brand, while its breakthrough Hybrid Cloud Backup architecture combines a Cloud optimized scale-out architecture, a Cloud backup and recovery software platform, and a Cloud API and management system to help IT Teams seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services.
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    SqlBak

    SqlBak

    SqlBak Backup

    Schedule and restore sql backup from any web browser on any device. Send backups to a folder, FTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3 and more. Monitor database performance and receive email alerts. Install our app on Windows or Linux, connect to sqlbak.com, then manage backups via the web. Create and restore full, differential, transaction log and incremental backups according to the schedule. Your backups are kept in the cloud storage of your choice, SqlBak doesn't keep your data. The health and performance of your SQL Server is checked every few minutes. We will send you an email if there is a problem with the backup or the performance of your SQL Server. SQLBackupAndFTP requires you to login to your server to manage and restore database backups, but SqlBak does it all from the web. SqlBak is vastly superior in managing a large number of database servers as it allows you to see them all on a single Dashboard page and update in bulk.
    Starting Price: $6 per month
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    SQLBackupAndFTP

    SQLBackupAndFTP

    SQLBackupAndFTP

    No more complicated configuration, just a single form to automate backups: select databases, backup (full, diff, tran log), encrypt, compress, send to a folder, FTP or cloud service. SQLBackupAndFTP is a software that backups SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL Server databases, performs regular full, differential, and transaction log backups, runs file/folder backup, zips and encrypts the backups, stores them on a network or on an FTP server or in the cloud (Amazon S3 and others - we're constantly adding more), removes old backups, and sends an e-mail confirmation on the job's success or failure. SQLBackupAndFTP is ideal for any SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, or Amazon RDS SQL database where backups should be sent to FTP, SFTP, FTPS, NAS, local or network folder, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Amazon S3 (and any S3-Compatible storage), Azure Storage, Backblaze B2, Yandex.Disk. It is especially useful for any SQL Server versions, including Azure SQL and Amazon RDS SQL.
    Starting Price: $39
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    FrontBase

    FrontBase

    FrontBase

    FrontBase was created to fill the need for a robust and scalable relational database server that was Internet-enabled, had no downtime, and required zero administration. FrontBase's speed, wide range of features, and flexible structure can give you a competitive edge. FrontBase is not only incredibly fast but is also a very scalable relational database server. Our customers use FrontBase to create everything from small personal databases to some of the largest enterprise-level databases in the world, yet without any need for expensive database administration staff. In business since 1996, FrontBase not only creates tools, but also mission critical applications, such as the Command and Control Center for the Copenhagen Police, a 24/7 emergency response system. With a dedicated Support division, and separate divisions for Tools, Core Development, and Professional Services, FrontBase is ready to help you achieve your goals with three offices around the world.
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