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Borg backup is amazing. I've been using it for years now, backing up a few terabytes of data from a few dozen VMs. The dedupe is downright magical. We've been
by bloopernova 7y ago
Borg backup is amazing. I've been using it for years now, backing up a few terabytes of data from a few dozen VMs.
The dedupe is downright magical. We've been able to remain super frugal on the storage allocation for backups solely because of how wonderful its dedupe is.
Restores are also really nice and easy since they are just a FUSE mount.
If you have a Linux host or hosts, I can wholeheartedly recommend borg. It's elegant, robust, and fast. And open source.
- BlackLotus89 7y agoI benchmarked borg and restics deduplication on a few datasets and restic was the winner (1-2 years ago). Did you do any comparisons with other deduplicating backup solutions? (Benchmarked the efficiency not the speed. Test data set was a few 100GB)
- bloopernova 7y agoWe were previously using Bacula, which was way too heavyweight for what we wanted. I found Borg after looking into Attic, and wasn't aware of Restic at that point. Compared to the Bacula and BackupExec, Borg was lightning fast and its disk usage was very frugal.