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I'm still looking for a full-fledged backup and archiving solution that has the following characteristics: 0) error-correction (not just detection!) 1) end
by Koffiepoeder 4y ago
I'm still looking for a full-fledged backup and archiving solution that has the following characteristics:
0) error-correction (not just detection!)
1) end-to-end encryption
2) deduplication
3) compression
4) cross-platform implementations
5) (at least one) user interface
6) open source
Both Borg [0] and Restic [1] have long standing open issues for error-correction, but seem to consider it off strategy. I find that decision kind of strange, since to me the whole purpose of a backup solution is to restore your system to a correct state after any kind of incident.
My current solution is an assembly of shell scripts that combine borg with par2, but I'm rather unhappy with it. For one, I trust my home-brewn solution rather faintly (i.e. similar to `don't roll your own crypto` I think there should be an adagium `don't roll your own back-up solutions`). In addition I think an error-correcting mechanism should be available also for the less technology-savvy.
[0]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225 https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225
[1]: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/256 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/256
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