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by microtonal 2314 days ago
I have been using Arq for years. Locally over SSH to our NAS, remotely with B2 as well. I have done many restores over those years, both when installing a new machine or when I lost some file. It's really awesome, especially because it's decoupled from any storage vendor. You just buy a license and choose where you want to store backups.

On Linux I use restic, which is also great, but on macOS Arq is just more seamless.
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nicolaslem 2314 days ago
I use restic on my Debian laptop and I think that it misses a GUI to be perfect.

I am fine with using the CLI for setup but unless I closely monitor systemd timers, backups could be failing silently and I would not notice.

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microtonal 2314 days ago
Indeed! I also have a setup where the secrets come from the pass password manager, which I use with a hardware OpenPGP token. So, I get these global PIN dialogs once gpg-agent expires the PIN, which is quite annoying :(. Not sure though how to solve this nicely without making the secrets to visible to the rest of the system.
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