Compare the Top Free Database Backup Software as of June 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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