Duplicity

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  • restic

    Fast, secure, efficient backup program

  • After Borg, I switched to Restic:

    https://restic.net/

    AFAIK, the only difference is that Restic doesn't require Restic installed on the remote server, so you can efficiently backup to things like S3 or FTP. Other than that, both are fantastic.

  • BorgBackup

    Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  • I used this many, many years ago but switched to Borg[0] about five years ago. Duplicity required full backups with incremental deltas, which meant my backups ended up using too much disk space. Borg lets you prune older backups at will, because of chunk tracking and deduplication there is no such thing as an incremental backup.

    [0] https://www.borgbackup.org/

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  • glacier_deep_archive_backup

    Extremely low cost, off-site backup/restore using AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive

  • If you don't need incremental backups (thus saving space for the signatures) and want to store to S3 Deep Glacier, take a look at https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup

  • Duplicacy

    A new generation cloud backup tool

  • I have been having great luck with incremental backups with the very similar named Duplicacy https://duplicacy.com/

  • restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

    Automatic restic backup using Backblaze B2 storage and either Linux systemd timers, macOS LaunchAgent, Windows ScheduledTask or simply cron.

  • I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

    For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

    I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

    [0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

    [1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

    [2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

    [3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

    [4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

  • autorestic

    Config driven, easy backup cli for restic.

  • I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

    For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

    I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

    [0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

    [1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

    [2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

    [3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

    [4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

  • resticprofile

    Configuration profiles manager and scheduler for restic backup

  • I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

    For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

    I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

    [0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

    [1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

    [2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

    [3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

    [4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

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  • prestic

    Prestic is a profile manager and task scheduler for restic

  • I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

    For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

    I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

    [0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

    [1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

    [2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

    [3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

    [4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

  • rustic

    rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust

  • I'm a huge fan of restic as well. My only complaint is performance and memory usage. I'm looking forward to being able to use Rustic: https://rustic.cli.rs/

  • npbackup

    A secure and efficient file backup solution that fits both system administrators (CLI) and end users (GUI)

  • borgmatic

    Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

  • Rdiff-backup

    Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.

  • For starters it has a tendency to paint itself into a corner on ENOSPC situations. You won't even be able to perform a restore if a backup was started but unfinished because it ran out of space. There's this process of "regressing" the repo [0] which must occur before you can do practically anything after an interrupted/failed backup. What this actually must do is undo the partial forward progress, by performing what's effectively a restore of the files that got pushed into the future relative to the rest of the repository, which requires more space. Unless you have/can create free space to do these things, it can become wedged... and if it's a dedicated backup system where you've intentionally filled disks up with restore points, you can find yourself having to throw out backups just to make things functional again - even ability to restore is affected.

    That's the most obvious glaring problem, beyond that it's just kind of garbage in terms of the amount of space and time it requires to perform restores. Especially restores of files having many reverse-differential increments leading back to the desired restore point. It can require 2X the file's size in spare space to assemble the desired version, while it iteratively reconstructs all the intermediate versions in arriving at the desired version. Unless someone fixed this since I last had to deal with it, which is possible.

    Source: Ages ago I worked for a startup[1] that shipped a backup appliance originally implemented by contractors using rdiff-backup. Writing a replacement that didn't suck but was compatible with rdiff-backup's repos consumed several years of my life...

    There are far better options in 2024.

    [0] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/blob/master/src...

    [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/axcient

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