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restic was mentioned a few times and is a very similar project with very similar goals. They both have encryption as a first-class concept and are snapshot base

by cyphar 8y ago

restic was mentioned a few times and is a very similar project with very similar goals. They both have encryption as a first-class concept and are snapshot based with content-defined chunking. I'd hope most people would be using these newer generations of backup tools.

AgentME 8y ago
My favorite benefit of restic is that it doesn't require the receiving end to have any special software: you can use restic to backup to S3 or BackBlaze B2 directly.
- cyphar 8y ago
  Yup, though due to Australian internet I don't use restic's support for non-local backends (otherwise getting a snapshot list or doing a purge+clean is painfully slow) -- I have a sync job that runs every day that uses rclone to sync the restic backup store.
- ViViDboarder 8y ago
  Same! I’ve been using Duplicity for most of my backups and had been considering switching to Borg, but passed when I found it couldn’t use B2 as a backend. Now I’m using both Duplicity and Restic, for different backups.
cdumler 8y ago
I've been using restic for a long time now. It's flexibility is amazing: * Fully open-source, command line implementation. Script as needed. * Supports ton of backends, including directories, SFTP, and many cloud services. * Supports multiple backup operations in parallel. Create one repo for multiple machines. * A repo is really an encrypted object store with a lists of directory/file/metadata references (snapshots). If the same file exists on multiple directories/drives/machines, it is deduplicated. * Supports tagging, which allow you to identify independent snapshots and manage them. * Supports purging old data with conditions, ie. keep last 7 daily, 3 weekly, and 6 monthly. * Can verify and repair repositories. I regularly use it to backup my home server to a backup drive and to Backblaze. I've also used to back up my home directory of my development machine to replicate it on another machine.

by cyphar 8y ago

AgentME 8y ago

My favorite benefit of restic is that it doesn't require the receiving end to have any special software: you can use restic to backup to S3 or BackBlaze B2 directly.

cyphar 8y ago
Yup, though due to Australian internet I don't use restic's support for non-local backends (otherwise getting a snapshot list or doing a purge+clean is painfully slow) -- I have a sync job that runs every day that uses rclone to sync the restic backup store.
ViViDboarder 8y ago
Same! I’ve been using Duplicity for most of my backups and had been considering switching to Borg, but passed when I found it couldn’t use B2 as a backend. Now I’m using both Duplicity and Restic, for different backups.

cdumler 8y ago

I've been using restic for a long time now. It's flexibility is amazing: * Fully open-source, command line implementation. Script as needed. * Supports ton of backends, including directories, SFTP, and many cloud services. * Supports multiple backup operations in parallel. Create one repo for multiple machines. * A repo is really an encrypted object store with a lists of directory/file/metadata references (snapshots). If the same file exists on multiple directories/drives/machines, it is deduplicated. * Supports tagging, which allow you to identify independent snapshots and manage them. * Supports purging old data with conditions, ie. keep last 7 daily, 3 weekly, and 6 monthly. * Can verify and repair repositories. I regularly use it to backup my home server to a backup drive and to Backblaze. I've also used to back up my home directory of my development machine to replicate it on another machine.