It's a shame Duplicacy is not free software.
Author of Duplicacy here. To personal users, it is free software.
A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
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Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#12Is anyone using such tools as a backup for their NAS (and then using their NAS for time machine?). That would beat having to install something like Backblaze on every family member's machines. Cloud backup is great but it's always better to have a local (LAN) copy and then an off-site copy.
I use borg (attic fork) backing up to rsync.net for my home server. All my machines back up locally to that machine (mostly using SyncThing), then it backs itself up every hour or so. It's not perfect but it does work really rather well. Borg is really nice, and rsync.net is of that variety of service that are always my favourites: it does one thing very well. Also they offer a discount if you use borg or attic (poss…
How much data and what's your monthly cost? I have a 2TB storage VPS for under $10/month. rsync.net looks very good but is possibly total overkill for my needs. Definitely don't need >1 snapshot/day as that's what my hourly local backup is for.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#13It's a shame Duplicacy is not free software.
Author of Duplicacy here. To personal users, it is free software.
The term "free software" has a very specific meaning [1] and there is no such thing as "free software, but only for personal users".
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use borg (attic fork) backing up to rsync.net for my home server. All my machines back up locally to that machine (mostly using SyncThing), then it backs itself up every hour or so. It's not perfect but it does work really rather well. Borg is really nice, and rsync.net is of that variety of service that are always my favourites: it does one thing very well. Also they offer a discount if you use borg or attic (poss…
How much data and what's your monthly cost? I have a 2TB storage VPS for under $10/month. rsync.net looks very good but is possibly total overkill for my needs. Definitely don't need >1 snapshot/day as that's what my hourly local backup is for.
It's a bit more expensive than most options but the price does vary by how much of your data is duplicated. At the mo I have 1TB of data being backed up but it squashes down to under 550GB with borg. Monthly price for me is about $17 (paid yearly though).
I'm happy with the extra price for my use, but yeah it's not the best option if you have a lot of unduplicated data.
If you're interested, here's the link to the borg/attic pricing page: http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#15Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#16Best thing about restic is not having to spend 45 minutes downloading and manually bullshitting around with python dependencies and libraries. What Go is good at IMO.
`attic` and `borg` are just one `sudo apt install attic` or `sudo apt install borgbackup` away. No "bullshitting around with python dependencies" required. It looks like they also have packages for other platforms: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases
I was talking mainly about duplicity which has always been like pulling teeth.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#17The results don't look very complete seeing as how attic was abandoned over two years ago. The master attic branch[0] has 600 commits. The fork of attic, borg, has over 4000 commits [1] suggesting a significant amount of work has been done to improve it.
It seems odd for the author to compare it to something abandoned (and thankfully reborn as borg) and ignore what has happened in two years.
Would love to see similar tests run against borg.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#18Is anyone using such tools as a backup for their NAS (and then using their NAS for time machine?). That would beat having to install something like Backblaze on every family member's machines. Cloud backup is great but it's always better to have a local (LAN) copy and then an off-site copy.
> Is anyone using such tools as a backup for their NAS (and then using their NAS for time machine?).
I use borgbackup to back-up my stuff locally with rclone to mirror the borg repository in the cloud (personal Google Drive in my case) and have also experimented with running borgbackup to an offsite Raspberry Pi.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#19It's a shame Duplicacy is not free software.
Author of Duplicacy here. To personal users, it is free software.
It doesn't meet the free software foundation's definition of free software, which I believe was the original point.
It lacks the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition#T...
https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy/blob/master/LICENSE...
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#20The results don't look very complete seeing as how attic was abandoned over two years ago. The master attic branch[0] has 600 commits. The fork of attic, borg, has over 4000 commits [1] suggesting a significant amount of work has been done to improve it. It seems odd for the author to compare it to something abandoned (and thankfully reborn as borg) and ignore what has happened in two years. Would love to see similar…
The version row for attic says "BorgBackup 1.1.0b6"