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If you're looking for cheap online storage for your backups know this: A Microsoft 365 Single subscription comes with 1 TB of OneDrive space (Family subscriptions with 1 TB per person). I've been using it with restic + rclone successfully for years. It's not very fast, but works.
Borg 2.0 beta (deduplicating backup program with compression and encryption) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40990425 - July 2024 (1 comment)
Borgctl – borgbackup without bash scripts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39289656 - Feb 2024 (1 comment)
BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152369 - Dec 2022 (177 comments)
Emborg – Front-End to Borg Backup - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30035308 - Jan 2022 (2 comments)
Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939412 - July 2021 (71 comments)
BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642364 - Nov 2019 (103 comments)
Borg – Deduplicated backup with compression and authenticated encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13149759 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)
BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11192209 - Feb 2016 (1 comment)
Currently I'm just using bare rclone to backup to my own remote machines, but obviously this isn't very professional solution. Was thinking to add Backblaze B2 as a remote, but I guess using rclone wouldn't be a state-of-the-art solution here. After all, it isn't really a backup tool, is it? It has some built-in encryption, but it's a bit clunky, and I'd think a proper backup tool should automatically divide data int…
Borg 2 is still beta and Kopia is also there. But it's newer so I am testing it on another redundant backup on the same machine. I have space so why not?
Every once in a while I run integrity check (with data) so I can trust that metadata and data are fine.
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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.
This is cool. It sounds like I can set up restic to copy my backups to multiple S3 buckets, or even to an S3 bucket at the same time as a local drive using a union (https://rclone.org/union/) remote
Currently I'm just using bare rclone to backup to my own remote machines, but obviously this isn't very professional solution. Was thinking to add Backblaze B2 as a remote, but I guess using rclone wouldn't be a state-of-the-art solution here. After all, it isn't really a backup tool, is it? It has some built-in encryption, but it's a bit clunky, and I'd think a proper backup tool should automatically divide data int…
I've been using it for quite a while now both for my personal projects and paid work and have had a good experience with it.
Currently I'm just using bare rclone to backup to my own remote machines, but obviously this isn't very professional solution. Was thinking to add Backblaze B2 as a remote, but I guess using rclone wouldn't be a state-of-the-art solution here. After all, it isn't really a backup tool, is it? It has some built-in encryption, but it's a bit clunky, and I'd think a proper backup tool should automatically divide data int…
You might want to look into kopia. It accomplishes the same task as restic, but handles configs in a way you might find more appealing. Further reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34154052
Don't even bother with duplicati. I've tried to make it work so many times, but it's just a buggy mess that always fails. It's a shame too, because I really like the interface.
It's kind of ridiculous that there is better tooling for Kubernetes to sync files two ways than there is for the Linux desktop. Rclone is a maze of options, which vary based on version/distro. The configurator is a slow readline console script without enough information. The one decent GUI for Rclone has been abandoned, and despite being able to save "tasks", had no ability to just... schedule one every 10 minutes. A…
Syncthing?
By contrast, Borg, Restic, Kopia (anything else?) use object storage, aka binary blobs, like S3 or R2 or One Drive. They store both entire copies and small diffs on top of them, much like video codecs, or like git. You can look at the filesystem you've backed up as it was in a particular moment, and you may have a history of many such moments, say, daily snapshots for a month, stored economically, not as 30 full copies. And it all is encrypted on top. If your source FS supports snapshots (ZFS, XFS on LVM, BTRFS), your backups can be entirely consistent views of your filesystem, of its relevant subtrees.
I was using it for years on an external drive, but then I got a NAS, and did not want to fuss with community packages to get Borg working.
Kopia works fine, aside from the confusing GUI setup process, but it seems to be the least popular up and coming option.
Now it seems that this can directly target SFTP? I wonder what that means for the future of Kopia.
With rclone support built-in, the setup would be much easier.
It's kind of ridiculous that there is better tooling for Kubernetes to sync files two ways than there is for the Linux desktop. Rclone is a maze of options, which vary based on version/distro. The configurator is a slow readline console script without enough information. The one decent GUI for Rclone has been abandoned, and despite being able to save "tasks", had no ability to just... schedule one every 10 minutes. A…