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I have many servers with different (versions) of Linux distros on them and I found Duplicity | Restic very annoying to install. Vague (for me as non-Python expe

I have many servers with different (versions) of Linux distros on them and I found Duplicity | Restic very annoying to install. Vague (for me as non-Python expert) error messages and options randomly not working as a result. Rclone was absolutely painless to install everywhere.

KAMSPioneer 7y ago
Were you getting Python errors from Restic? Not terribly familiar with Duplicity, but Restic is written in Go (Github is https://github.com/restic/restic https://github.com/restic/restic).
- tluyben2 7y ago
  I tried 4 different similar packages; maybe I remember that detail wrong, but I could not get Restic working on older machines for some reason. Rclone was so simple and it just worked, so I did not investigate further. Is Restic much better?
  - witten 7y ago
    You might be thinking of Borg Backup, which is written in Python: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/
- anderspitman 7y ago
  Yeah for me the hardest part about installing restic was remembering how to unzip a bz2 file. I don't know what more you can ask for than a statically linked binary...
  - tluyben2 7y ago
    Ok, cannot have been Restic then; thanks, I am going to try that one now. And find out what the other Python one was; I was following an SO recommendation.