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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!

Just sent you an email for a test account:) Thanks!

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

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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.

So, you're saying there aren't any others that are as good as borg?

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?

Scenario == backup everything from local devices + cloud accounts/storage (e.g., iCloud, Dropbox, etc) all back down into a locally owned NAS. Use case == customer can use whatever backup whenever on whatever device, and rely on this service to hoover it all up and sync it to a big local NAS so it's all there when needed (and optionally allows deleting various cloud sync accounts or restoring/syncing cloud accts from big local NAS if needed)

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!

You may also be interested in Duplicacy (not to be confused with Duplicity etc). Can also backup to SFTP, great dedupe features, RSA encryption, etc.

https://duplicacy.com/home.html

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!

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…

Look at Duplicacy. It's memory usage is reasonable for me and dev is lowering it. Also faster than Restic and fully incremental.

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

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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/

It's minimalistic, I went to check Rclone but couldn’t find schedules backups or a GUI so I can already see how this app could be appealing to some.

RClone is more about copying folders/files between storage systems, it doesn't pack files together like other tools. I use Rclone for larger files like pictures or media files that don't change or move around, pure sync to targets. You can use cron to run it if you want.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Look at Duplicacy. It's memory usage is reasonable for me and dev is lowering it. Also faster than Restic and fully incremental.

I hope it gets to the point not to consume several GB soon enough. Also the pricing got too greedy and I'm not sure if I want to pay that.

It used to be per user but now it's per machine and it's even asking you to pay $50/year per machine even for cheap instances that are $60/year and when you have 20 small machines to look after, the pricing looks a bit too unfair.

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