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Amazing that you're doing this! I've been looking for something new for a while. How well does this work for developers? I had to stop using Dropbox because NP

Amazing that you're doing this! I've been looking for something new for a while. How well does this work for developers? I had to stop using Dropbox because NPM/Yarn seems to do too many symlinks for Dropbox to understand and it never stopped syncing. I then tried to switch to Google Drive backup but THEIR BACKUP + SYNC APP KILLS MY MACHINE because it's a huge memory hog. I have to kill it/restart ever since going there so now I'm looking to get off of this Google Monster. I'd be excited to try your service but would love an answer to the above! Also, how does restore work? Your FAQ/docs are pretty light on screenshots of the actual software. Good luck!

mholt 8y ago
Thanks for the comments! As you can see why, we don't recommend using file sync software for backups. Relica can handle symlinks just fine: it preserves them, not follows them. Restore works well also, it just runs in the background. Pretty simple right now, but we're actively participating in contributing to restic to make restores more interactive in the sense of progress reporting. We are not focusing on screenshots right now so we can revamp the UI, and we have some good ideas for restores, so you'll see it changing here in the next few months. Anyway, we'd love for you to give it a try! Feel free to email us with any other feedback.
- thebiglebrewski 8y ago
  Thanks for your reply! Let's say my entire computer is lost or stolen. What's the best way to restore? Can I restore my entire disk image? Or does Relica just backup individual files, meaning I'd have to repopuplate my environment, then use Relica to bring back files? Does Relica use one directory like Dropbox by default or does it backup my whole machine?
  - mholt 8y ago
    Good questions. I should add some of these to our FAQ. Relica does file backup, not disk imaging -- for various reasons. So you'll install Relica and restore the files either on your new computer, or just log into the website (without needing to install Relica) and download a restore file --- that web restore feature is coming soon; we just got it working in dev last week. :) You can back up all the files your user has access to with Relica. You can actually run it as root (on Linux) but we need to write a how-to for that, since it unfortunately requires disabling automatic upgrades for now. We'll work on making it more flexible for these use cases once we've got the basics more covered.

mholt 8y ago

Thanks for the comments! As you can see why, we don't recommend using file sync software for backups. Relica can handle symlinks just fine: it preserves them, not follows them. Restore works well also, it just runs in the background. Pretty simple right now, but we're actively participating in contributing to restic to make restores more interactive in the sense of progress reporting. We are not focusing on screenshots right now so we can revamp the UI, and we have some good ideas for restores, so you'll see it changing here in the next few months. Anyway, we'd love for you to give it a try! Feel free to email us with any other feedback.

thebiglebrewski 8y ago
Thanks for your reply! Let's say my entire computer is lost or stolen. What's the best way to restore? Can I restore my entire disk image? Or does Relica just backup individual files, meaning I'd have to repopuplate my environment, then use Relica to bring back files? Does Relica use one directory like Dropbox by default or does it backup my whole machine?
- mholt 8y ago
  Good questions. I should add some of these to our FAQ. Relica does file backup, not disk imaging -- for various reasons. So you'll install Relica and restore the files either on your new computer, or just log into the website (without needing to install Relica) and download a restore file --- that web restore feature is coming soon; we just got it working in dev last week. :) You can back up all the files your user has access to with Relica. You can actually run it as root (on Linux) but we need to write a how-to for that, since it unfortunately requires disabling automatic upgrades for now. We'll work on making it more flexible for these use cases once we've got the basics more covered.