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Thanks for the honesty, I really appreciate this. And BTW, I am a happy Arq user, I've been using it on multiple machines for the past several years. It is the

by jwr 9y ago

Thanks for the honesty, I really appreciate this. And BTW, I am a happy Arq user, I've been using it on multiple machines for the past several years. It is the ONLY backup solution out there that: * encrypts my data without me having to supply the decryption key to a third party when decrypting, * decouples backup and encryption from a particular storage provider, * makes me independent of ebbs and flows of storage providers by supporting pretty much every one out there. I've learned to value independence over cheapness, so I stick with Arq. Plus, it's been working really well over the years.

dsacco 9y ago
Duplicati hits everything you're talking about (I have essentially the same criteria for backups).[1] It's cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux). I love using Arq on my MacBook Pro, but since they won't release a Linux client I use Duplicati on Ubuntu. I like it a lot. __________________________ 1. https://www.duplicati.com/ https://www.duplicati.com/
- jwr 9y ago
  Nice! Thanks for posting this — I've been looking for something like Arq for Linux, and this seems to be it.
aolagers 9y ago
These are also handled by Borg [0], which supports compressed data as well. However, it does not have direct support for different cloud providers so the archive must be synced with different tools. [0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
- dom0 9y ago
  A couple people use external tools (rclone and git-annex are popular) to sync their Borg repos somewhere else. This requires enough local space (hard drive / NAS / whatever) to store the repository. This can be an advantage (=storing to a local drive is very fast; if it's on a NAS the NAS can sync it to the cloud; also you can quickly recover files from a local drive), but is not always practical. In the long run (Borg 1.2 - 1.3) we'll add an interface to Borg to make it storage-independent ("repository drivers") in a secure way (this is already sketched out, just not enough manpower in the project to implement it all right now. Finishing 1.1 has top priority and received a bit of funding). Adding support for S3 and $threeDozenOtherAPIs directly to Borg is generally speaking unlikely. PS: To-be-released Borg 1.1 will optionally get rid of cache syncs for "borg create".

by jwr 9y ago

dsacco 9y ago

Duplicati hits everything you're talking about (I have essentially the same criteria for backups).[1] It's cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux). I love using Arq on my MacBook Pro, but since they won't release a Linux client I use Duplicati on Ubuntu. I like it a lot. __________________________ 1. https://www.duplicati.com/ https://www.duplicati.com/

jwr 9y ago
Nice! Thanks for posting this — I've been looking for something like Arq for Linux, and this seems to be it.

aolagers 9y ago

These are also handled by Borg [0], which supports compressed data as well. However, it does not have direct support for different cloud providers so the archive must be synced with different tools. [0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

dom0 9y ago
A couple people use external tools (rclone and git-annex are popular) to sync their Borg repos somewhere else. This requires enough local space (hard drive / NAS / whatever) to store the repository. This can be an advantage (=storing to a local drive is very fast; if it's on a NAS the NAS can sync it to the cloud; also you can quickly recover files from a local drive), but is not always practical. In the long run (Borg 1.2 - 1.3) we'll add an interface to Borg to make it storage-independent ("repository drivers") in a secure way (this is already sketched out, just not enough manpower in the project to implement it all right now. Finishing 1.1 has top priority and received a bit of funding). Adding support for S3 and $threeDozenOtherAPIs directly to Borg is generally speaking unlikely. PS: To-be-released Borg 1.1 will optionally get rid of cache syncs for "borg create".