[alexdme]

I also used to use git-annex on my photos, ended up getting frustrated with how slow it was and wrote aegis[1] to solve my use case.

I wrote a bit about why in the readme (see archiving vs backup). In my opinion, syncing, snapshots, and backup tools like restic are great but fundamentally solve a different problem from what I want out of an archive tool like aegis, git-annex, or boar[2].

I want my backups to be automatic and transparent, for that restic is a great tool. But for my photos, my important documents and other immutable data, I want to manually accept or reject any change that happens to them, since I might not always notice when something changes. For example if I fat finger an rm, or a bug in a program overrides something and I don't notice.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~alexdavid/aegis

[2]: https://github.com/mekberg/boar

[fer]

While I understand why git-annex wouldn't work for you, what gaps did you find in boar?

[seanw444]

I might have to give aegis a try.