Have you thought about adding CLI support to the roadmap? If you were to add that it would be an instant buy for me, as well as many other admins, I'm sure.
Great product though! Always happy to see projects like this
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#52Have you thought about adding CLI support to the roadmap? If you were to add that it would be an instant buy for me, as well as many other admins, I'm sure. Great product though! Always happy to see projects like this
Yes! CLI will be included in the next release. Have gotten this request a few times now:)
Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage
#53Have you thought about adding CLI support to the roadmap? If you were to add that it would be an instant buy for me, as well as many other admins, I'm sure. Great product though! Always happy to see projects like this
Yes! CLI will be included in the next release. Have gotten this request a few times now:)
Very good! Will definitely follow up
Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage
#54Have you thought about adding CLI support to the roadmap? If you were to add that it would be an instant buy for me, as well as many other admins, I'm sure. Great product though! Always happy to see projects like this
Yes! CLI will be included in the next release. Have gotten this request a few times now:)
One more question: Has BlobBackup been tested with hundreds of thousands, to millions of files in a single backup archive? I've had issues with backup software in the past choking during backup/restore with a very large number of files.
Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! CLI will be included in the next release. Have gotten this request a few times now:)
One more question: Has BlobBackup been tested with hundreds of thousands, to millions of files in a single backup archive? I've had issues with backup software in the past choking during backup/restore with a very large number of files.
The limiting factor with BlobBackup will be the number of files the storage backend can handle in one directory. Generally speaking BlobBackup will create slightly more files in your destination than your original source.
With object storage like s3, b2, azure, wasabi etc, this just isn't a problem since you can effectively have as many objects in one "directory" as you want.
With local, nas or hard drive storage, you'd be limited by the number of files per directory the file system allows (4.2 billion for NTFS for example). So you're probably fine here too.
Google drive (which isn't recommended for large backups with BlobBackup) has much stricter restrictions on files per directory. So really it depends on the backend but for most use cases it isn't a problem.
BlobBackup has been tested on millions of files backed up to NTFS and object storage yes.
Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more question: Has BlobBackup been tested with hundreds of thousands, to millions of files in a single backup archive? I've had issues with backup software in the past choking during backup/restore with a very large number of files.
The limiting factor with BlobBackup will be the number of files the storage backend can handle in one directory. Generally speaking BlobBackup will create slightly more files in your destination than your original source. With object storage like s3, b2, azure, wasabi etc, this just isn't a problem since you can effectively have as many objects in one "directory" as you want. With local, nas or hard drive storage, yo…
Alright, thanks!
Re: Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
One more question: Has BlobBackup been tested with hundreds of thousands, to millions of files in a single backup archive? I've had issues with backup software in the past choking during backup/restore with a very large number of files.
The limiting factor with BlobBackup will be the number of files the storage backend can handle in one directory. Generally speaking BlobBackup will create slightly more files in your destination than your original source. With object storage like s3, b2, azure, wasabi etc, this just isn't a problem since you can effectively have as many objects in one "directory" as you want. With local, nas or hard drive storage, yo…
Also the blobbackup subreddit is a good place go for updates, release notes, discussion, etc [1]
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#58Would you include HashBackup (author here) in your next round of benchmarks? Thanks!
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#59Would you include HashBackup (author here) in your next round of benchmarks? Thanks!
Hey! Sure thing.
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#60We (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!
Do you have any recommendations on backup tools? I figured borg is stable and does the job but others, including restic have problems like memory usage concerns and I'm just a single person shop and don't have any huge assets to backup and already seeing restic/duplicacy choke consuming GBs of memory. What are the tools that are performant and stable? I'd like to at least use another implementation besides borg in ca…
Our current recommendation is 'borg' and all customer feedback reinforces that choice.