Who Is BackupKit For?
One focused app to back up anything to anywhere — encrypted, scheduled, and under your control. Here’s how different people put it to work.
Developers & Agencies
Protect code, databases, and client project folders with scheduled, encrypted backups straight to your own SFTP server, NAS, or cloud drive — with webhook callbacks into your CI or Slack.
- Scheduled backups of project folders
- Destinations: SFTP, Google Drive, NAS, more
- AES-256 encryption before upload
- Webhooks on success/failure
System Administrators
Run unattended backups across Windows servers to any storage mix — local NAS, SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV. Watch every job from a health dashboard and get paged on Telegram or email the moment something fails.
- Backup to SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, NAS
- Retention policies & missed-run handling
- Health dashboard across all jobs
- Telegram, email & webhook alerts
Content Creators & Photographers
Archive photo libraries, video projects, and raw footage off your working drive every night. Compress to save space, encrypt to protect unreleased work, and keep older versions with retention policies.
- Nightly backups of project folders
- Compression with tunable levels
- Retention by days or number of versions
- Destinations: Dropbox, Google Drive, local NAS
Freelancers & Small Businesses
Protect accounting files, client deliverables, and shared drives with set-and-forget backups. Use the cloud storage you already pay for — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive — no extra vendor, no lock-in.
- 14 supported destinations
- Unlimited accounts per provider
- Filters to skip temp/cache files
- One-click restore when you need it
Privacy-Focused & Self-Hosted Users
Back up to your own NextCloud, ownCloud, or SFTP server via WebDAV or SSH. AES-256 encrypted before it leaves your machine — your data, your infrastructure, no middleman reading it.
- WebDAV & self-hosted cloud support
- AES-256 encryption with your passphrase
- SFTP, FTPS, local & network drives
- No telemetry on your backup contents
Home & Power Users
Keep family photos, documents, and game saves safely copied to Google Drive, OneDrive, or a drive in the closet. One wizard, green-light dashboard, and peace of mind that Windows’ built-in tools never quite delivered.
- 3-step wizard — no IT knowledge needed
- Daily/weekly/custom schedules
- Pause during gaming or big downloads
- One-click restore of any version
Set up a backup, step by step
Detailed walkthroughs for the most common backup scenarios — pick the destination that matches your setup.
Automated encrypted cloud backups
The full setup — schedule, AES-256, retention, destination choice.
Back up Windows to Amazon S3
Your own bucket, your IAM credentials — S3 support coming soon.
Back up Windows to a NAS
Synology, QNAP, Unraid, TrueNAS — SFTP, WebDAV, or SMB.
Self-hosted backup destinations
NextCloud, ownCloud, Seafile, SFTP — your server, your keys.
Back up Windows to…
Pick your destination for a step-by-step guide. Mix any of them — back up to a NAS and the cloud at once.
Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob are coming soon.
Why BackupKit Instead of a Cloud-Locked Tool?
Most backup apps either lock you into their own cloud (Backblaze, Carbonite), feel like enterprise bloatware (Acronis), or look like they were built in 2008 (Duplicati, Windows Backup). BackupKit is a focused, Windows-native app that backs up to the storage you already own — your NAS, your Google Drive, your own server — encrypted, scheduled, and out of your way.