[longwave]

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 taking too long and 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/

[tussa]

I did the same. I had some weird path issues with Duplicity.

Borg is now my holy backup grail. Wish I could backup incrementally to AWS glacier storage but that just me sounding like an ungrateful begger. I'm incredibly grateful and happy with Borg!

[sigio]

Agree completely... used duplicity many years ago, but switched to Borg and never looked back. Currently doing borg-backups of quite a lot of systems, many every 6 hours, and some, like my main shell-host every 2 hours.

It's quick, tiny and easy... and restores are the easiest, just mount the backup, browse the snapshot, and copy files where needed.

[stavros]

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.

[pdimitar]

Technically Borg doesn't require it either, you can backup to a local directory and then use `rclone` to upload the repo wherever.

Not practical for huge backups but it works for me as I'm backing up my machines configuration and code directories only. ~60MB, and that includes a lot of code and some data (SQL, JSON et. al.)

[stavros]

Sure, but rsync requires the server to support rsync.

[pdimitar]

Does rclone require rsync? Haven't checked.

[stavros]

Oh sorry, brain fart, I thought you said rsync. I think rclone uploads everything if you don't have rclone on the server, but I'm not sure.

[shaunpud]

Works a treat with borgmatic https://torsion.org/borgmatic

[zzzeek]

I have an overnight cron that flattens my duplicity backups from many incremental backups made over the course of one day to a single full backup file, that becomes the new backup. then subsequent backups over the course of the day do incremental on that file. So I always have full backups for each individual day with only a dozen or so incremental backups tacked onto it.

that said will give Borg a look

[giamma]

Same for me. Also, on MacOs duplicity was consuming much more CPU than Borg and was causing my fan to spin loudly. Eventually I moved to timemachine, but I still consider Borg a very good option.

[GTP]

Also duplicity let's you automatically delete backups older than a certain amount of time, what is the difference?