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use restic. It's like git but for backups. Many years ago I was a happy user of CrashPlan as the data was also easily accessible, but when they stopped their p
by kidsil 4y ago
use restic. It's like git but for backups.
Many years ago I was a happy user of CrashPlan as the data was also easily accessible, but when they stopped their private user plans I looked into several solutions (Duplicati, duplicacy, and some others too). restic was the only one light enough for me to use consistently, which is a critical thing about backups.
- funOtter 4y agoDoes anyone have experience with comparing restic and Rclone? I feel like they are similar. * https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/
- dave78 4y agoWhile there's probably some overlap for certain use cases, I'd say they're more complementary. In fact, Restic leverages rclone to support a lot of cloud storage services. Restic is specifically meant as a backup tool and does encryption, deduplication, snapshots, and now apparently compression. Rclone is more of a synchronization tool/copying tool (which could also be used to make backups), more like rsync or even just cp (but with cloud storage support).
- funOtter 4y agoThanks!
- seized 4y agoRclone is more for syncing than backups. Its great for moving files between storage systems and syncing one path to a destination. Some backup tools use it for uploading/etc.
- dsego 4y agoRclone is like rsync for the cloud, you can sync files to a google drive or other service. And like CCC it can archive deleted files as a saftey net. I love the simplicity, no deltas, snapshots or restore procedures, the files are just there on the destination.
- dv_dt 4y agoI use restic to a backup to a local drive, then use cloud storage to backup the repos. I know restic supports some direct backup to some cloud backends directly, but this seems more decoupled and less prone to errors/hangs.