bimbashrestha

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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Operations are streaming and there is no local database. So memory consumption and config data storage are very tiny by design. The largest backup a user has reported using this with has been 5 tb and it ran without a hitch. I'm pretty
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Yeah more info would be great. First time software seller here so I'm a little slow on some things but rest assured, I'm gonna have a privacy policy soon. The EULA is there when you download the software. BlobBackup doesn't s
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Yeah the main difference between borg (and their GUI vorta) and a lot of the other options (BlobBackup included) is the non sftp storage support. I would have used restic directly as a backend for BlobBackup had it not been for the awful pr
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Well generally speaking, backups will use about 37-40% of the original size. BlobBackup uses variable length and fixed length block level dedupe and zstandard compression. So you can optimize by adjusting block sizes, changing compressing l
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Yeah full disclaimer. I started working on it before I saw bvckup2 and then at some point came across it and then could not unsee it design wise so you're right. Some things are very heavily inspired off their awesome design. Outside o
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Good catch. But the SHA hash is salted per backup destination though. So you can't figure out the content from the hash alone. EDIT: I should make note of that on the docs page really. It currently gives the impression that I'm ju
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Or maybe I'm confused about your question haha. Do you simply mean is it possible to restore backups to local? Or a reverse backup operation from cloud to local?
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
It uses a custom algorithm and data format but uses a similar deduplication technique to restic. There is bit of info in the docs page about this [1]. [1]: https://blobbackup.com/docs.php#data-format
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Thanks! Its built in a combination of C and python. Using zstandard for compression and openssl for crypto. Qt for the GUI.
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Ah this isn't supported right now. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to add but it's just never been brought up by users till now. What is your use case for this?
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
It's generally faster to backup [1], way faster to restore [1], backups use less space [1], has a native app for each OS and usability (subjective I know but give the two a shot yourself) is better imo. [1] Benchmark on open data set.
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Hey! Thanks for asking. On mobile right now so this isn't comprehensive but a few advantages jump to mind. 1. Compression/deduplication. Your data will (generally speaking) take up about half the space it did before even including
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Show HN: Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage(blobbackup.com)
92 points by bimbashrestha 6y ago|64 comments
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by bimbashrestha 6y ago
Developer here. Started this because I was looking for a cross platform backup GUI tool that let me create encrypted incremental snapshots to my NAS and B2 bucket on a schedule. The tools I found (both paid and free) were either clunky to u
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Show HN: BlobBackup – Lightweight Backup Utility(blobbackup.com)
6 points by bimbashrestha 6y ago|1 comments