Overview
8BitSafe is a native client side encrypted deduplicating backup CLI tool with optional compression and multi platform support.
By default backup data lives inside a repository as a series of binary files inside a folder. Making it suitable for backing up to external media or remote storage.
We aim to provide high quality well engineered software that you can rely on.
We also offer a hosted remote storage plan where the client side encrypted data is streamed directly to our storage servers. Click here to read more
Features
Client side encryption
Client side encryption is at the heart of the tool and heavily influences the design, click here for details.
Archives / Snapshots
Each backup repository can store an unlimited amount of archives each archive is essentially a snapshot of your files at a given point in time.
So you might create a new archive every day or as often as every hour.
This gives you the ability to restore order versions of your files or even files you deleted but are still present in an old archive.
Ransomware
These snapshots protect you from ransomware as long as your backup storage is not exposed to the ransomware (using our remote storage would be one option).
Since even if you create a backup after your data was encrypted you can simply restore your data from an archive that took place before the ransomware attack.
Space efficient storage
Deduplication based on content-defined chunking is used to reduce the number of bytes stored: each file is split into a number of variable length chunks and only chunks that have never been seen before are added to the repository.
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Speed
The main priority for 8BitSafe is security but second is speed and efficiency, so 8BitSafe has been optimized extensively.
This makes large backups feasible but also means smaller backups complete quicker and use less system resources.
On systems with minimal data changes, backups should take a few seconds.
Compression
Support for multiple compression algorithms and fine grained compression patterns, click here for details.
Optional networking functionality
Effort has been taken to ensure all networking functionality is contained within the optional plugins, the main binary 8BitSafe-cli contains zero networking functionality.
So if you wish to use the tool for backups to locally attached storage you can be omit the plugins and be confident the tool performs no phoning home, telemetry collection or update checks.
Networking logic for remote storage is contained within the optional plug-in.
Native binaries
We provide native binaries for each supported platform, allowing optimal use of available resources.
Also minimising install bloat as no language runtime is required.
We also provide portable binaries for some platforms.
Cross platform archives
You can extract data on any of the supported platforms.
See supported platforms for additional details and considerations.