A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
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Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#2Is 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.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#3Is 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 (possibly others) as they turn off their ZFS snapshot system and assume your software handles that.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#4Has anyone run these on their computer? As they noted, they are the author of Duplicacy.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#5Best 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.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#6Is 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?).
Do you mean backup to the NAS or for backing up the NAS itself to a third location?
Either way, there's no need for an either/or approach. Just do both. I've tried multiple backup applications and many support local and remote backup options as standard. I'm using Borg and Back In Time and with Borg it's just a second cronjob with nearly identical scripts for the off-site backup over SSH. With Back In Time I was using the AWS CLI to push the backups to S3, but I found a better deal with cheaper storage. I have about 200GB data in total but want a 1TB archive available online for older backup sets.
Side note - OP's review is helpful but Borg Backup is oddly listed under 'Attic', which it was forked from years ago. Don't bother looking for Attic if you are comparing backup tools available today.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#7It's a shame Duplicacy is not free software.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#8Performance bothers me an order of magnitude less than the potential for obscure bugs which could lose me data.
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#9Best 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
Re: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
#10Has anyone run these on their computer? As they noted, they are the author of Duplicacy.
Author of Duplicacy here. I would like to see other's results too.