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BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Re: BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Post by misanthr0pe »

mendym wrote: post #2

is there a reason to use the borg encryption[1] over rclone crypt[2] or vise versa? 1. https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0b11/quickstart.htm... 2. https://rclone.org/crypt/

I would also wonder what the difference between this package and Restic is. as far as efficiency and encryption.

Re: BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Post by scorpioxy »

Oh very interesting. This has been a requested feature for a while especially with the rise in popularity and the decreased cost of object storage.

Borg working with object storage was not supported though some people did use it that way. From my understanding, most would duplicate a repo and upload instead of borg directly writing/manipulating it. This could problematic if the original repo was corrupt as now the corruption would be duplicated. So this will make things much easier and allow for a more streamlined workflow. Having the tool support rclone instead of specific services seems like a wise and more future-proof choice to me.

Re: BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Post by synergy20 »

tandav wrote: post #4

The lack of s3-like remotes support was the reason I switched from borg to restic

rclone has dedupe, I think it does what restic can do plus multiple cloud support.

rclone crypt also does encryption.

so far I think rclone has it all for me.

Re: BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Post by Helmut10001 »

BorgBackup user here and really happy. It was a set and forget for me and after 7 years, the deduplicated backup is still working flawlessly each week. I recommend pairing it with borgmatic [1], which helps to design away some of the complexities of the underlying borg backup.

[1]: https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic

Re: BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Post by thangngoc89 »

synergy20 wrote: post #6
tandav wrote: post #4

The lack of s3-like remotes support was the reason I switched from borg to restic

rclone has dedupe, I think it does what restic can do plus multiple cloud support. rclone crypt also does encryption. so far I think rclone has it all for me.

Restic also offers encryption and compression. That’s the selling point for me when dealing with dozens of TB

Re: BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH

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Post by wongogue »

synergy20 wrote: post #6
tandav wrote: post #4

The lack of s3-like remotes support was the reason I switched from borg to restic

rclone has dedupe, I think it does what restic can do plus multiple cloud support. rclone crypt also does encryption. so far I think rclone has it all for me.

They also work together. restic uses rclone for backends other than the officially supported 7. rclone also has built-in restic integration.

rclone on it own is a syncing solution not backup.

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