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You might like Restic as an alternative. It's a bit higher performance, and there's no server component needed.
by Filligree 3y ago
You might like Restic as an alternative. It's a bit higher performance, and there's no server component needed.
- shoo 3y agoi've used both restic and unison, they're both good tools but they're focused on different jobs, they're not really comparable. restic is specialised for backups and offers uni-directional backup and uni-directional restore from backup. unison implements bi-directional sync. if you don't want bi-directional sync and don't want specialised backup support, rsync will get the job done. if you want bi-directional sync (unifying changes made on both sides), that's something that neither rsync nor restic can handle. tangentially, re: using restic for offsite backups, one storage provider that pairs quite nicely with restic is rsync.net -- they have a lower-rate pricing offer specifically for use with restic (by default rsync.net filesystems have ZFS snapshots available, they disable ZFS snapshots for these "restic accounts" -- the restic application is then responsible for managing backup snapshots, not the filesystem). https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html