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I've been using Duplicati, which has been doing a great job at keeping my backup sizes low and has a handy interface. I've been keeping encrypted remote backup
by jszymborski 7y ago
I've been using Duplicati, which has been doing a great job at keeping my backup sizes low and has a handy interface.
I've been keeping encrypted remote backups for ~300 Gb worth of data, which occupies ~150 Gb. On Backblaze B2, it's costing me ~$10CAD/mo, which is a _lot_ cheaper than Tarsnap.
I might try Restic (always good to have a backup backup system), but I'm not sure how ergonomic it'd be on Windows.
https://www.duplicati.com/ https://www.duplicati.com/
- mmastrac 7y agoMy duplicati experience has not been great - I found that it couldn't recover well from backup corruption (multi-day recovery times for ~1TB of data when everything was local and USB-connected!). The web interface is what keeps me on it.
- tryptophan 7y agoSame here. Duplicati works great until you actually have to restore. It took me 3 hours to restore a 12GB backup. After that I quit using it. Now I just made my home folder a shared folder on Syncthing, in send only mode, so it constantly backs up to my Nas. Much faster and the backup is directly readable.
- jszymborski 7y agoAgreed, backup is slow (although recent versions are leveraging multi-core CPUs, so that's given a modest speed-up). Syncthing in send-only is not a sufficient back-up strategy for 90% of use-cases, however. Without incremental back-ups, you're still susceptible to ransomware and data-loss should syncthing update after the event. I do, however, like to keep a "verbatim" copy in addition to my incrementals since they are less likely to have a "restoration" problem.