Feature Comparison

Item Arq 5 Duplicati

Version 5.16 v2.0.5.106
Storage Backend Choices Ok Great
GUI Yes Yes
Block Sizes Vary (~2M) 50 M
Dedup Yes Yes
Dedup Rolling ** Yes No
UI - Backup Progress Yes Yes
UI - Restore Progress Yes No
Logging / Statistics Good Good
Price $50 Free

Synthetic Benchmark
Item Arq 5 Duplicati
Target HDD HDD
Initial Backup 15h 9h24m
Backup Size 438Gb 435Gb
Dedup Stress Efficiency (100 * 1Mb) -6% -10%
Dedup Stress Efficiency (16 * 8Mb) 48% -2%
Dedup Stress Efficiency (4 * 128Mb) 98% 24%
Update (+0) 40s 1m
Update (+200mb) 40s 1m12s
Update (+2.1Gb) 2m30s 3m25s
Restore (1 file; 3.7Gb) 3m30s 1m20s
Restore (800 files; 2.7Gb) 2m30s 1m45s
Prune 2h50m 78s

Real World Benchmark - Onedrive

Item Arq Duplicati
Target Onedrive Onedrive
Initial Backup N/A N/A
Backup Size 438Gb 438Gb
Update (+0) 40s 3m30s
Update (+200mb) 4m30s 5m20s
Update (+2.1Gb) 30m30s 6m35s
Restore (1 file; 3.7Gb) 48m 3m28s
Restore (800 files; 2.7Gb) 7m30s 4m35s
Prune >24 hr 3m14s

Item Arq Duplicati

Target Pcloud Virtual Pcloud Virtual
Initial Backup N/A N/A
Backup Size 438Gb 438Gb
Update (+0) 40s 3m40s
 Update (+200mb) 1m10s 4m23s
Update (+2.1Gb) 6m20s 7m47s
Restore (1 file; 3.7Gb) 1h10m 2h+
Restore (800 files; 2.7Gb) 20m 14m
Prune > 24 Hr 2m00s
 Duplicacy Restic Borg Cloudbacko
1.30 0.9.6 1.1.13 4.1.2.13
Ok Great (via rclone) Poor Good
Yes No No Yes
Vary (~4M) Vary (~4M) 500 M Vary (~24M)
Yes Yes Yes No
Yes Yes Yes No
Yes Yes Sort of Yes
Yes No No Yes
Good Manual Manual Good
$20 new + $10/yr Free Free Free / Ads

Duplicacy Restic Borg Cloudbacko

HDD HDD HDD HDD
14h20m 18h30m 12h 21h23m
437Gb 447Gb 437Gb 447Gb
95% -5% 0% 0%
96% 63% 45% -13%
99% 99% 98% -7%
4s 1m04s 1m31s 2m7s
16s 12s 3m5s 1m4s
2m13s 3m47s 4m42s 4m2s
1m51s 4m10s 2m30s 2m57s
1m16s 3m41s 1m40s 1m28s
7s 10s 40s 56s

Duplicacy Restic Borg

Onedrive Onedrive Onedrive
72h+* 36h 12h
440Gb 450Gb 445Gb
33s 1m34s 2m54s
2m32s 1m52s 2m56s
23m6s 6m12s 3m20s
20m28s 57m 3m52s
15m23s 22m 17m20s
4m38s 2m35s 24m52s

Borg
Pcloud Virtual
4h54m
436Gb
3m42s
 2m16s
3m54s
17m
13m43s
8m46s