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> My goal was to find backup software, not to do a security analysis Did you achieve your goal (i.e., did you find backup software you trust)?

by k0stas 6y ago

csnover 6y ago
I’ve been happy using Carbon Copy Cloner for local backups for years. It may mostly be a wrapper around rsync, but it’s a very good one. :-) For cloud backups, I’m still looking. My personal criteria are security (of course), good data integrity management, continuous backup, upload speed, and low resource utilisation. I was hoping to find something which was also simple enough that I could also tell non-technical friends and family to just use <whatever>. What I found was: Backblaze… well, you know. Carbonite uses Java and is slow. SpiderOak uses Python and is slow. Duplicacy uses Go along with a local web interface for the consumer version. It currently consumes way too much memory during backups[0]. IDrive I never tried installing; I was put off by how it appears to uses a fleet management model where configuration relies on visiting their web site and having stuff get pushed down to the client. Acronis True Backup somehow manages to be 700 megabytes on disk. I thought they must be using CEF, but no, it seems to just contain a truly colossal amount of code along with a 100 megabyte help file. At some point I stumbled across Arq, which looked like it could be a winner: they’ve published a couple CVEs on their site like a good company should; they have a monthly sub or you can just buy the software outright and use your own cheap cloud storage like S3 Glacier; they even publish the format of their backup files[1]. But then they went and released Arq 6 using CEF for the UI. It looks like they listened to feedback from users and will be going back to a native UI for Arq 7, and so I plan to take a serious look at this once it is released. [0] https://forum.duplicacy.com/t/memory-usage/623/ https://forum.duplicacy.com/t/memory-usage/623/ [1] https://www.arqbackup.com/docs/arqcloudbackup/English.lproj/dataFormat.html https://www.arqbackup.com/docs/arqcloudbackup/English.lproj/...
- tomcam 6y ago
  Tarsnap?
  - csnover 6y ago
    Am I misreading this pricing information? They charge $250 per terabyte per month? I know I didn’t specify cost effectiveness in my list but I did at least expect everything to be within the same order of magnitude in cost.

> My goal was to find backup software, not to do a security analysis Did you achieve your goal (i.e., did you find backup software you trust)?

by k0stas 6y ago

> My goal was to find backup software, not to do a security analysis Did you achieve your goal (i.e., did you find backup software you trust)?

csnover 6y ago

I’ve been happy using Carbon Copy Cloner for local backups for years. It may mostly be a wrapper around rsync, but it’s a very good one. :-) For cloud backups, I’m still looking. My personal criteria are security (of course), good data integrity management, continuous backup, upload speed, and low resource utilisation. I was hoping to find something which was also simple enough that I could also tell non-technical friends and family to just use <whatever>. What I found was: Backblaze… well, you know. Carbonite uses Java and is slow. SpiderOak uses Python and is slow. Duplicacy uses Go along with a local web interface for the consumer version. It currently consumes way too much memory during backups[0]. IDrive I never tried installing; I was put off by how it appears to uses a fleet management model where configuration relies on visiting their web site and having stuff get pushed down to the client. Acronis True Backup somehow manages to be 700 megabytes on disk. I thought they must be using CEF, but no, it seems to just contain a truly colossal amount of code along with a 100 megabyte help file. At some point I stumbled across Arq, which looked like it could be a winner: they’ve published a couple CVEs on their site like a good company should; they have a monthly sub or you can just buy the software outright and use your own cheap cloud storage like S3 Glacier; they even publish the format of their backup files[1]. But then they went and released Arq 6 using CEF for the UI. It looks like they listened to feedback from users and will be going back to a native UI for Arq 7, and so I plan to take a serious look at this once it is released. [0] https://forum.duplicacy.com/t/memory-usage/623/ https://forum.duplicacy.com/t/memory-usage/623/ [1] https://www.arqbackup.com/docs/arqcloudbackup/English.lproj/dataFormat.html https://www.arqbackup.com/docs/arqcloudbackup/English.lproj/...

tomcam 6y ago
Tarsnap?
- csnover 6y ago
  Am I misreading this pricing information? They charge $250 per terabyte per month? I know I didn’t specify cost effectiveness in my list but I did at least expect everything to be within the same order of magnitude in cost.