I switched from bup backup to borg backup, because it generally works better for my use cases; however, there are two things bup does do better: 1. remote back

I switched from bup backup to borg backup, because it generally works better for my use cases; however, there are two things bup does do better: 1. remote backup through ssh, especially de-duplicating between different clients, especially concurrent client backups. borg needs a compatible version installed on the other side (and compatibility has been broken between versions in the past); bup uses bare-bones ssh+sftp, so the other side can basically be anything. borg will have a lot of download to client from server if multiple clients back up to the same repository (essentially every time in most common use cases); bup will have a minimal download. borg maintains a repo lock, so multiple clients backing up to the same repo will be serialized; bup does not, so it can be concurrent. 2. Storage format borg's format is it's own format; bup's underlying data format is basically a git repo (which you can treat as such; you may need to manually apply "cat" to rebuild files, bit "git" and "cat" are all you need). I have heard good things about restic, but did not have a chance to evaluate it myself.