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Where can I read about the best solutions for backups? For nerdy people

CameronNemo 5y ago
Restic and BorgBackup really seem to be the favored solutions out there. Restic for encryption, Borg for deduplication and compression. Or maybe bacula if you want pull based backups instead of push based. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.bacula.org/documentation/documentation/ https://www.bacula.org/documentation/documentation/
- photon-torpedo 5y ago
  BorgBackup can be made to operate in pull mode too, see: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/pull-backup.html https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/pull-... At work I've implemented a variant of the ssh-agent method described there. Admittedly, it requires some scripting :)
O_H_E 5y ago
When talking about backups for nerds, https://www.rsync.net/ https://www.rsync.net/ always deserves a mention.
- funcDropShadow 5y ago
  ... as well as the http://taobackup.com/ http://taobackup.com/ .
lucgommans 5y ago
There is also https://github.com/restic/others https://github.com/restic/others which has some keywords (e.g. is it encrypted, does it do compression) for most FOSS backup solutions. It can be outdated or incomplete for some entries, though.
rsync 5y ago
'borg'[1] has, in recent years, become the de facto standard for secure, encrypted, you-control-the-keys backups. It has been referred to as "the holy grail of backups"[2]. Two of the better howtos that we have seen for borg are [3][4]. [4] is geared toward OpenBSD users. [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ [3] https://jstaf.github.io/2018/03/12/backups-with-borg-rsync.html https://jstaf.github.io/2018/03/12/backups-with-borg-rsync.h... [4] https://rgz.ee/borg.html https://rgz.ee/borg.html

Restic and BorgBackup really seem to be the favored solutions out there. Restic for encryption, Borg for deduplication and compression. Or maybe bacula if you want pull based backups instead of push based. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.bacula.org/documentation/documentation/ https://www.bacula.org/documentation/documentation/

photon-torpedo 5y ago
BorgBackup can be made to operate in pull mode too, see: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/pull-backup.html https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/pull-... At work I've implemented a variant of the ssh-agent method described there. Admittedly, it requires some scripting :)

O_H_E 5y ago

When talking about backups for nerds, https://www.rsync.net/ https://www.rsync.net/ always deserves a mention.

funcDropShadow 5y ago
... as well as the http://taobackup.com/ http://taobackup.com/ .

lucgommans 5y ago

There is also https://github.com/restic/others https://github.com/restic/others which has some keywords (e.g. is it encrypted, does it do compression) for most FOSS backup solutions. It can be outdated or incomplete for some entries, though.

rsync 5y ago

'borg'[1] has, in recent years, become the de facto standard for secure, encrypted, you-control-the-keys backups. It has been referred to as "the holy grail of backups"[2]. Two of the better howtos that we have seen for borg are [3][4]. [4] is geared toward OpenBSD users. [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ [3] https://jstaf.github.io/2018/03/12/backups-with-borg-rsync.html https://jstaf.github.io/2018/03/12/backups-with-borg-rsync.h... [4] https://rgz.ee/borg.html https://rgz.ee/borg.html