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Restic is a great backup program. I use it (via rclone) to back up my laptop and it truly saved my bacon when I attached my main hard disk to a VM I was playing
by nickcw 5y ago
Restic is a great backup program. I use it (via rclone) to back up my laptop and it truly saved my bacon when I attached my main hard disk to a VM I was playing with and accidentally formatted it!
Restic can use rclone to access cloud providers it can't access and that's something we worked together on.
I use rclone directly for backing up media and files which don't change much, but restic nails that incremental backup at the cost of no longer mapping one file to one object on the storage which is where rclone shines.
(rclone author)
- aborsy 5y agoWill there be any issue if an rclone crypt remote is selected to be the backend for restic? Is there any interaction between these two layers of encryption, or are they completely independent?
- IceWreck 5y agoNot OP but why would you want to use rclone crypt with restic if restic already does the encryption for you.
- aborsy 5y agoThere are sometimes vulnerabilities in software. For instance, popular rclone and tarsnap have had fatal vulnerabilities in the past. Also, I have a crypt set up for other stuff and rather deal with one remote. Otherwise, cascades encryption is generally not recommended.
- saganus 5y agoDo you have any links about the tarsnap vulnerability? I've been using it for a few years and was not aware of it so would be great to know if any backups were affected.
- _h9mb 5y agoI do something similar but using Borg (backup), gocryptfs (encryption) and rclone (sync) for cloud backup. No cascade.