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by sigio 882 days ago
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.
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stavros 882 days ago
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.

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pdimitar 882 days ago
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.)

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stavros 882 days ago
Sure, but rsync requires the server to support rsync.
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pdimitar 882 days ago
Does rclone require rsync? Haven't checked.
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stavros 882 days ago
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.
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pdimitar 882 days ago
Pretty sure rclone uploads just fine without server dependencies, yeah. I never installed anything special on my home NAS and it happily accepts uploads with rclone.
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