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Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

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Ah this isn't supported right now. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to add but it's just never been brought up by users till now. What is your use case for this?

Or maybe I'm confused about your question haha. Do you simply mean is it possible to restore backups to local? Or a reverse backup operation from cloud to local?

Is the idea is to avoid using local resources to back up to two places, but only once to send to cloud and then handle cloud->NAS elsewhere?

Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

#22

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I'd be more curious what the advantages are compared to Arq.

It's generally faster to backup [1], way faster to restore [1], backups use less space [1], has a native app for each OS and usability (subjective I know but give the two a shot yourself) is better imo. [1] Benchmark on open data set. https://blobbackup.com/10_gb_benchmark.php

How does it scale to larger datasets (TBs of data)? For example, Duplicati is much slower with large datasets compared to small/medium datasets, because of it's database. Once, the database grows too large (eg. multiple GBs), it becomes too slow to be usable.

Which version of Duplicati was used in this benchmark?

Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

#23
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Aesthetics-wise this looks very heavily "inspired" by https://bvckup2.com . The UI is basically a 1-to-1 copy of an older version: https://blobbackup.com/images/logs.png http://bvckup.com/img/shot-6.png "Good artists create, great artists copy", but that's a bit too close for comfort.

I see that they are almost the same, but my version would probably end up looking the same if I were to independently write a GUI for backups.

Similar to how desktop word processors and browsers all look the same; some patterns just make sense for a specific type of software.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

#25
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What are the advantages compared to say, Rclone which is open-source and supports a wide variety of storage backends[1] and E2E encryption[2] as well? [1]: https://rclone.org/overview/ , [2]: https://rclone.org/crypt/

Duplicacy would have been a better comparison since it and blobbackup are backup tools, whilst Rclone is built for sync and has supporting tech like mounting for that usecase.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

#26
post #18

Aesthetics-wise this looks very heavily "inspired" by https://bvckup2.com . The UI is basically a 1-to-1 copy of an older version: https://blobbackup.com/images/logs.png http://bvckup.com/img/shot-6.png "Good artists create, great artists copy", but that's a bit too close for comfort.

I see that they are almost the same, but my version would probably end up looking the same if I were to independently write a GUI for backups. Similar to how desktop word processors and browsers all look the same; some patterns just make sense for a specific type of software.

It is surprisingly hard to come up with a simple and concise UI even if it may seem all too trivial in retrospect.

Given that this one uses secondary control labels that are verbatim of Bvckup's, has the same layout and opening screen, and nearly identical look and feel, this is certainly not an independent effort.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see that they are almost the same, but my version would probably end up looking the same if I were to independently write a GUI for backups. Similar to how desktop word processors and browsers all look the same; some patterns just make sense for a specific type of software.

It is surprisingly hard to come up with a simple and concise UI even if it may seem all too trivial in retrospect. Given that this one uses secondary control labels that are verbatim of Bvckup's, has the same layout and opening screen, and nearly identical look and feel, this is certainly not an independent effort.

I do agree that there is a difference between 'similar' and 'nearly identical', and these seem nearly identical.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage

#29
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We (rsync.net) will test this out immediately - we're always happy to see tools like this that support plain old SFTP. If, for any reason, you'd like a free test account, just email info@rsync.net. Thank you for building this!

Huh. You have an "ARM" logo on your webpage, is that this ARM??

https://adc.arm.gov/armlogin/login.jsp

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