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by parfamz 2391 days ago
What about restic? I'm pretty happy with it
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You're happy with a backup software that does not have compression? Really? You don't pay for storage?
If compression is purely a function of the price, things are not so obvious.

I think Backblaze B2 is the cheapest, but it's not supported by Borg. So a backup system without compression support, but with B2 support, may ultimately be cheaper than a system with opposite features.

It's also important to consider the use case. If a user's bulk of data is photos/videos/audio files, there's virtually no use of compression - but of course, the proportion will vary per user.

I’m using restic too for part of my backups, having moved from duplicity. My experience has been (on a dataset which is relatively compressible ie not audio/video files) that deduplication has saved me quite a lot more space vs duplicity than I lost through not having compression.