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I've been using Restic recently for backups online (to Backblaze, which it natively supports) after using Duplicity for a while. I'm really, really impressed so
by cfallin 7y ago
I've been using Restic recently for backups online (to Backblaze, which it natively supports) after using Duplicity for a while. I'm really, really impressed so far; the hash-based deduplication means:
- I don't have to think about deduplicating my own data, which works well with my packrat tendencies (e.g., multiple copies of music library on snapshots of old laptops);
- Full-disk backups of multiple machines will share a lot of storage (all system files from my desktop and laptop, both running the same Linux distro);
- Restarting a long upload doesn't depend on some finicky state regarding an interrupted previous backup; it can just rescan the whole disk and skip uploading blobs that are already there, which feels much more robust to me.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoFYI those are all functions of any deduplicating backup software, of which there are several out there, Restic being only one of them.
- cfallin 7y agoYes, indeed; Restic just happened to be an easy-to-use deduplicating backup program that supports various cloud storage backends, including the one I happen to use (Backblaze). Not needing to patch together some sort of pipeline of dedup --> upload to remote storage is a nice selling point.