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Other popular choices include borg, duplicity, and duplicati. After evaluating these and others mentioned in the comments, I ended up using borg with borgmatic
by kayson 2y ago
Other popular choices include borg, duplicity, and duplicati.
After evaluating these and others mentioned in the comments, I ended up using borg with borgmatic to define homelab backups with yaml files that are version controlled in gitea and deployed using ansible.
I also use duplicity to back up my sister in laws storefront website to backblaze. I've been quite happy with both.
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
http://duplicity.gitlab.io/ http://duplicity.gitlab.io/
https://docs.duplicati.com/en/latest/ https://docs.duplicati.com/en/latest/
- mikae1 2y agoBorgBackup is also my choice. More features, but that's not necessarily a good (or bad) thing if Restic does everything you need.
- riedel 2y agoI'd throw in kopia[0], fast, many features and easy to use across platforms. [0] https://kopia.io/ https://kopia.io/
- mongol 2y agoI have seen Kopia mentioned from time to time but never as often as borg. Does it have a good reputation?
- bityard 2y agoI've been using it for years with zero problems.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoIt's not as old, but has a Gui and is native on Linux/Windows/Macos.
- crossroadsguy 2y agoLast time I tried Kopia was more like "select ONE folder to backup and add ONE destination to SNAPSHOT it to". While it is very simplistic and would be lovely in many use cases - for a home/personal backup which often requires granularity of inclusion and exclusion it just didn't make any sense. I am not sure whether that has changed.
- riedel 2y agoKopia allows to specify quite different snapshot configurations with patterns etc. I converted old snapshot since 2005 backwards into the same dedup mounted on diverse paths, so I wonder what would be missing.
- crossroadsguy 2y agoSomething like this https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#including-files https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#incl... is missing. Or let's say something like Borg's PATH arg. i.e multiple files/sources to be backed up to one destination/sink in one go. Not one by one in different snapshots.
- leetnewb 2y agoKeeping with the name scheme, there is also duplicacy - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy
- pixard 2y agoI have tested all of these also, and settled on borg + borgmatic. It has been absolutely rock solid. Borgmatic just rounds everything together in such a nice way. The documentation is great. I'm pushing it all to a Hetzner storage box, as well as a local NAS. Super affordable!
- DavideNL 2y agoSame, borgmatic has been running flawlessly for a long time, it’s great. Also backing up to a Hetzner storagebox, so it’s quite cheap too. https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ https://torsion.org/borgmatic/
- sph 2y agoI chose restic because borg was slow, buggy and an unwieldy pile of Python, not the best language for deployment on heterogeneous Linux systems. Restic on the other hand is slow, but never crashed on me and is distributed as a single binary. The only thing I dislike about restic is that it does not have a simple config file where you define your backup settings. Instead I had to write my own backup.sh that I deploy everywhere on my personal and production machines. Paired with rsync.net for storage and healthchecks.io for notifications.
- abhinavk 2y agoUse resticprofile or autorestic for configuration file or to run scheduled jobs.
- ray_v 2y agoHonest question, but do you not consider environment variables to be a form of simple config? https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/040_backup.html#environment-variables https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/040_backup.html#envi...
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoI write Python day to day, but even I use Restic for the single binary. I take a lot of comfort in being able to keep the backup executable adjacent to the backup blobs. While I believe Borg now has a distributable binary, Go has it in its blood to make easy deployment without tricks.
- kayson 2y agoI've never had any crashing or big issues with borg, and it's generally considered to be faster than restic. I'm sure there are more recent benchmarks, but as of Dec 2022, borg wins by a fair bit [1]. For installation, I set up a dedicated virtualenv for borg and borgmatic installation then symlink into /usr/local/bin. This is also automated with ansible and has worked on every distro and version I've used. The latest version does require python 3.9.0, but that's already 4 years old. 1. https://github.com/borgbase/benchmarks https://github.com/borgbase/benchmarks
- notherhack 2y agoThe Borg site says Windows support is "experimental, no binaries yet". Is that still true?
- layer8 2y agoDuplicity is solid, I’ve been using it since over a decade, and it’s a standard package on Debian-based distributions. Never had any hiccups (and I run regular backup validations). These threads about backup tools come up regularly, and I always wonder if I’m missing something important about the other tools.
- Delk 2y agoI used Duplicity (via the Gnome Déjà Dup GUI) for years, but Borg turned out to be a lot faster at making the backups, at least for my laptop home dir backups. Like an order of magnitude faster. I don't think I ever tried to hand-configure Duplicity, though.
- o_____________o 2y ago& Arq https://www.arqbackup.com/ https://www.arqbackup.com/
- synthomat 2y agoArq is awesome! Unfortunately not suitable for headless systems.