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Attic shouldn't be used anymore! [1] You should either switch to Borg, which is a not-backwards-compatible fork of Attic: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en
by vog 10y ago
Attic shouldn't be used anymore! [1]
You should either switch to Borg, which is a not-backwards-compatible fork of Attic:
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Or you should switch to Obnam, which seems to have a cleaner implementation than Attic/Borg, and most importantly, a well-documented archive format:
http://obnam.org/ http://obnam.org/
Note that both have an archive format which is incompatible to Attic. Also note that some years ago Obnam had poor performance compared to Attic, but as far as I know, it became much faster since then.
[1] A serious bug which may cause data-loss has never been fixed, so Attic was removed from some distros such as Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802619 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802619
- discreditable 10y agoWow, I was not aware. Thank you for posting that!
- oever 10y agoUnlike Attic, Bup, and Borg, Obnam does not use rolling checksums. Rolling checksums are a brilliant way to do efficient deduplication. The bup DESIGN document explains how rolling checksums can be used. https://github.com/bup/bup/blob/master/DESIGN https://github.com/bup/bup/blob/master/DESIGN http://obnam.org/bugs/more-details-dedup/ http://obnam.org/bugs/more-details-dedup/