A backup is only as good as the restore that follows it. In BackupKit, restore is a first-class workflow, not an afterthought: pick a backup, pick a version, pick where it lands — no terminal, no manual unzipping, no hunting through archives.
Three steps, no terminal
Open the job you want to recover. Each job keeps its own restore history.
Yesterday's backup? A snapshot from three months ago? Every run is listed with size, date, and status.
BackupKit pulls the archive, decrypts it with your password, and drops the files where you asked.
Every backup is a rewind button
Ransomware that was silently encrypting files for two weeks. A bad deploy that trashed a project folder. An accidental "delete all" on Tuesday you only noticed on Friday. Pick the version from before things went wrong.
- Browse every run of every job, sorted by date.
- See size, duration, and success status at a glance.
- Retention policy decides how far back you can go — configurable per job.
Restore wherever makes sense
A restore isn't always "back to where it came from." Sometimes you want a side-by-side copy; sometimes you're moving to a new PC.
- Original location — the default. Overwrites the files exactly where they were backed up from.
- Custom folder — any folder on your PC, useful for comparing against the live version before overwriting.
- A new machine — install BackupKit on the new PC, point it at the same destination, and restore. Disaster recovery, sorted.
If BackupKit ever vanished, your data wouldn't
Backups live or die by one question: can you actually read them in ten years? BackupKit stores everything as a standard zip — not a proprietary format, not a database, not something only our app can open.
7-Zip, WinRAR, PeaZip, The Unarchiver, Keka — any modern archive tool can open a BackupKit archive and decrypt it with your password. No BackupKit install required.
Open the archive and you see your actual folder tree — not a blob, not a delta chain. Pull out a single file if that's all you need.
Read more about the archive format on the encryption page.
Restore the whole thing, or just a slice
Most restores are small — one folder, one file. BackupKit doesn't make you pull the whole archive when you only need a single document.
- Full restore — the whole backup, back on disk. For machine replacement or clean-reinstall scenarios.
- Selective restore — browse the archive contents in BackupKit, tick the folders or files you want, leave the rest alone.
- Manual pull — download the archive straight from your storage (Drive, FTP, your NAS...) and open it with any zip tool. BackupKit is optional.
Coming August 2026
Back up anything to anywhere — encrypted, scheduled, automated. Join the waitlist and be first to know when BackupKit is ready — early subscribers get 20% off at launch.