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In the spirit of sharing details of open source tools that work well with B2, I am using restic and finding it to work well.
by james_in_the_uk 8y ago
In the spirit of sharing details of open source tools that work well with B2, I am using restic and finding it to work well.
- jpeeler 8y agoApparently restic now supports using rclone as a backend: https://restic.net/blog/2018-04-01/rclone-backend https://restic.net/blog/2018-04-01/rclone-backend
- AgentME 8y ago+1 for restic. I switched to restic(+B2) from duply+duplicity(+S3) (another backup tool supporting dumb remote storage, encryption, incremental backups, and snapshots) and life is so much better. Duplicity needs the duply front-end for too many basics, it regularly needs full backups to be made and stored, it's not built at all for random access (it takes eons in order to list or fetch a specific file from a specific incremental backup), and it needs a barely documented command line switch in order to not bug out with S3 if you have too many files (why is that option not default? Its default S3 configuration has a max limit on file size. Duplicity splits the archives containing your files, but it has one un-split archive listing filenames or some kind of metadata that it doesn't support splitting, so if that file gets too big, then your backups just start failing). Restic is nice.