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With me being an IT person my landlord asked for recommendations for doing backups. Some googling revealed duplicati and we gave it a go. Installation + configu
by Phelinofist 4y ago
With me being an IT person my landlord asked for recommendations for doing backups. Some googling revealed duplicati and we gave it a go. Installation + configuration was easy and the features were sane. That was like 6-7 years ago and it is still running without issue (AFAIK ^^)
- patentatt 4y agoHave you tested restores? The problem I had with duplicati was that eventually restoring from a backup would take exponentially longer, to the point of never finishing. Maybe it would have eventually, but I can't wait multiple days to restore one file. There's a possibility it was an error or problem on my end, and this was a couple of years ago, so ymmv.
- Phelinofist 4y agoYes, we did test that and it worked reasonable fast (backup to external USB SSD)
- bkuhns 4y agoI'm a new user of Duplicati and so far so good, but what you describe sounds like their biggest issue with the original storage mechanism (full+huge chain of incremental backups). The new mechanism would likely completely fix your concern. Here's a brief description of how it now works on their website: https://www.duplicati.com/articles/Storage-Engine/ https://www.duplicati.com/articles/Storage-Engine/
- rekabis 4y agoThe one full-backup restore I did on my wife’s system - after her MacBook Air decided to fry its storage (it was obsolete anyhow) - went perfectly. 23Gb of personal files (she’s not the data pack rat I am) came streaming back down inside of 20 hrs. And we were on a much slower connection at the time, certainly not the symmetrical gigabit that we have now.
- michaelcampbell 4y ago> running without issue (AFAIK ^^) If you don't know, then it's not working. At least that should be your stance on backups.