I use borgbackup to a NAS on the LAN. I then use rclone to copy the repositories to a Google Drive that happens to be unlimited because of the subscription of my previous university. :-) Luckily my account persisted when I left the uni.
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Borg is also big on deduplication
Deduplication is one the things that drove me to Borg: it has the speed and space saving of an incremental backup but every single backup can be used as it was a full backup. 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.
The dedupe in Borg is downright magical. I know I lose some space by keeping my hosts in separate repositories, but even then, I get insane space savings.
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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.
I recently launched a backup service for Borg – https://www.borgbase.com . Also big on monitoring (email, pushover, webhook), as this is a common concern for backups. It just lacks terminal-based registration. :-) You could use the GraphQL API to manage everything from the command line if you really wanted.
This looks good, and competitively priced too! What's the backend cloud storage?
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#124I love the UX for this.. why haven't we seen more of going back to UNIX principles? I'm also curious.. why and what ML do you want to add?
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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
One big disadvantage of restic at the moment is that it doesn't do compression ( https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21 ). I was using restic and switched to borg because of that and could save hundreds of gigabytes.
IMO compression in backups is overrated. (I run Relica, a backup service built atop restic: https://relicabackup.com)
Most large files are already in compressed formats: mp4, zip, tgz, jpg, etc.
What you _really_ want is deduplication (which restic does), so that chunks are only stored once, even if multiple machines sharing some data back up to the same repo. Dedup saves me about 30% per backup repo in my own experience.
Not saying compression wouldn't be nice (to have done properly, it is somewhat at odds with encryption), but I'm just saying I don't think it's worth making it a #1 deciding factor.
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The encryption in Borg is weak but otherwise it works well if it fits your use case.
Can you give more details on how the encryption is weak?
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals/securi...
> When the above attack model is extended to include multiple clients independently updating the same repository, then Borg fails to provide confidentiality (i.e. guarantees 3) and 4) do not apply any more).
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This is correct. Visit English and French versions of a Canadian retailer, e.g. Amazon.ca. The English version follows English rules ($29.99) and the French version follows French rules (29,99 $) even though the currency is Canadian dollars for both. EN: https://www.amazon.ca/?language=en_CA FR: https://www.amazon.ca/?language=fr_CA
Writing 29.99 € or 29.99 EUR is still super common even if it's English. This might be in part because the UK never really used euros (and will probably never use them).
I'd say 29.99 EUR is very common, but not 29.99 €. I only ever see the € symbol after the value in documents from Europe, never in those from the UK (I see a lot of quotes, purchase orders and other financial documents from various places and companies)
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#128As cool as this could be, this service is not passing any company-grade backup quality requirements. Also, the price is a complete no. Not because 5€/m is much, but because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier, with contractual guarantees about your data, how it's managed, etc... Basically, this is a toy. Use it as a toy, not as a service where you'd actually put your company files. That said, g…
> because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier
Yes... until you want to take anything back out - then you're going to have to wait, and you're going to pay a lot more than €5
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#129Go isn't as portable as it should be.
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#130As cool as this could be, this service is not passing any company-grade backup quality requirements. Also, the price is a complete no. Not because 5€/m is much, but because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier, with contractual guarantees about your data, how it's managed, etc... Basically, this is a toy. Use it as a toy, not as a service where you'd actually put your company files. That said, g…
> because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier Yes... until you want to take anything back out - then you're going to have to wait, and you're going to pay a lot more than €5
Indeed, but it matters how much of the data you want to recover and how fast you want to recover it. Getting 100gb from glacier is not expensive at all if you can wait a couple of days.