Is borg free and open source?

Yes. borg is open source, available under the BSD-2-Clause license.

Is borg actively maintained?

borg is actively maintained — the latest commit landed within the last month. Its health score is 100/100.

borg

100

Health 100/100

Baseline50
Commit recency+25
Popularity+20
Release cadence+10
Open-issue load+5

borg is an open-source Python project with 13.4k GitHub stars. It is associated with backup, borgbackup, compression, deduplication. The repository is actively maintained, with recent commits.

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BSD-2-ClausePermissive — free to use in commercial and proprietary software, with attribution.View license →

Production readiness

4/5

Actively maintainedCommits in the last 6 months
No known vulnerabilitiesNot yet scanned
Clear, usable licenseBSD-2-Clause (permissive)
Proven adoptionWidely used
Has documentationDocumentation indexed

Install

pip install borg

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Documentation from borg, shown under BSD-2-Clause with attribution. Source: https://www.borgbackup.org/

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