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Another down-to-earth, unix-oriented, fair-deal style "cloud" service worth investigating is rsync.net. I've been using it to sync data between my devices, and I like the way it leaves the user in control.
I have not tried Baxx yet, but it seems to be a project in a similar spirit, and I am happy to see more investment in that kind of future.
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" I don't remember the last time I found registering for a SASS product to be fun." Agreed. This: "The way you register is through ssh, just `ssh register@ui.baxx.dev`" Is very cool and makes me happy.
That is very cool, how is this accomplished??
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Borg is hands-down the best backup utility I've used. I also use Borgmatic for some added niceties around checks/notifications/etc.
Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections
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Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.
I think this text/plain presentation is a form of showmanship. Put another way, do think there is ever any amount of CSS that is not superfluous?
CSS can be non-superfluous in documents, like when formatting text or a table.
I'd like to focus on the fact that this required orders of magnitude less effort than designing a web site, and most importantly – the presentation did not suffer. There were no compromises to be made.
Some have mentioned that this lacks functionality, but I'm having a hard time imagining what that might be. Maybe mobile-readiness, in that it's preformatted. Considering that this is a Unix-y tool for power-users, I think it's ok to expect them to read this on a PC.
Basically, this is a toy. Use it as a toy, not as a service where you'd actually put your company files.
That said, good job!
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Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections
Borg is also big on deduplication
It is also very easy to setup a pruning policy for old backups, so that you can say that you want to keep one backup per day for 90 days and after that only one backup per month for 2 years.
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The website https://ui.baxx.dev is, in fact, serving HTML, CSS, and JS. I get the point, but the "without a website" claim is kind of a cutesy attention-grabbing prevarication. I'm usually pretty tolerant of those, but personally find that here it mixes poorly with the idea of a backup service. From such a service, I'd prefer to see total honesty, and a sort of buttoned-down, almost military humorlessness/seriousness…
You're of course right, that page is serving HTML/CSS/JS - but that's kinda nitpicking. It roughly akin to me saying "my Golang on Linux program is 100% C code free - no C is used in the execution of my code!" .. well, clearly that statement would be false. However, it's perfectly legitimate to say my project is C code free - and that's what this project is saying. It's saying the project is web-tech free. There just…
But that's not the headline. The headline was instead that it's a service "without a website". But there is absolutely, positively, no-nitpicking-involved an HTTPS-accessible website for the service, set up by the service's own creators.
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Borg is hands-down the best backup utility I've used. I also use Borgmatic for some added niceties around checks/notifications/etc.
Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections
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Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections
Restic also works on Windows, whereas Borg doesn't (yet), if that's a consideration.
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Borg is hands-down the best backup utility I've used. I also use Borgmatic for some added niceties around checks/notifications/etc.
Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections
I was using restic and switched to borg because of that and could save hundreds of gigabytes.