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

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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

It's the older version of their current logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd.

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

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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.

IMO that UI is simple and generic enough that it wouldn't be impossible for them to have come to it independently.

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

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Huh. You have an "ARM" logo on your webpage, is that this ARM?? https://adc.arm.gov/armlogin/login.jsp

It's the older version of their current logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd .

Computing arm, hmm. I had always seen that in lower case. Thanks!

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

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post #15

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!

Your pricing link appears to be down:

"The requested URL /resources/regulatory/pricing.html was not found on this server."

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

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post #36

How does this compare to BorgBackup? https://www.borgbackup.org/

I found this comparison between borg and restic, and it seems like most of these apply. (https://stickleback.dk/borg-or-restic/) seems like blogbackup and restic are very similar. Wish there were more docs though.

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

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post #37
post #36

How does this compare to BorgBackup? https://www.borgbackup.org/

I found this comparison between borg and restic, and it seems like most of these apply. ( https://stickleback.dk/borg-or-restic/ ) seems like blogbackup and restic are very similar. Wish there were more docs though.

borg has been around for a while and I hear it's stable. They also have change logs that mention any corrupting bugs, which is getting quite rare for only on few occasions. I'm migrating from restic to borg.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changes.html

The downside of borg is that the target is only sftp and not directly to any of S3 and some other targets but there are online services that accept sftp.

On the other hand, restic is new and while this can sync towards many targets, the use of memory gets crazy after a while that my machine choked out of memory and these kind of stability problem is something not mentioned in the docs until you use it.

I've tried several others like duplicacy but this also has a memory problem and both restic and duplicacy seem to have trouble fixing it quickly.

When it comes to backup, I'd like to use more than 1 implementation toward different remote locations in case 1 of the implementation has corruption bugs to render the backup useless.

Trying out kopia to see if it does any better.

https://kopia.io

Also asuran seems promising but so far too early to test it out.

https://asuran.rs/

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?

Not the parent, but if you're ever looking for features to implement:

I've been thinking about this for quite a while, and one reason I've been unhappy with any sort of cloud backup solution is that they're usually too slow for laptops, unless I leave them awake while I'm sleeping.

An ideal backup solution for me would be laptop > NAS (or desktop) > cloud. A backup over the local network should be magnitudes faster, and the always-on NAS can handle a slower, versioned backup to cloud storage.

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

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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.

Yeah full disclaimer. I started working on it before I saw bvckup2 and then at some point came across it and then could not unsee it design wise so you're right. Some things are very heavily inspired off their awesome design.

Outside of the main window though, lots of other things are quite different and completely independently arrived at. Bvckup2 doesn't have third party storage support so everything else requires a fundamentally different UI to work in BlobBackup. Look at the settings windows and the menus for example.

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