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231 points fanf2 | 7 comments | 13 Oct 24 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.657s | source | bottom
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kayson ◴[13 Oct 24 18:57 UTC] No.41830564[source]▶
Other popular choices include borg, duplicity, and duplicati.

After evaluating these and others mentioned in the comments, I ended up using borg with borgmatic to define homelab backups with yaml files that are version controlled in gitea and deployed using ansible.

I also use duplicity to back up my sister in laws storefront website to backblaze. I've been quite happy with both.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

http://duplicity.gitlab.io/

https://docs.duplicati.com/en/latest/

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1. riedel ◴[13 Oct 24 19:08 UTC] No.41830658[source]▶
I'd throw in kopia[0], fast, many features and easy to use across platforms.

[0] https://kopia.io/

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2. mongol ◴[13 Oct 24 21:23 UTC] No.41831739[source]▶
I have seen Kopia mentioned from time to time but never as often as borg. Does it have a good reputation?
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3. bityard ◴[14 Oct 24 01:08 UTC] No.41833213[source]▶
I've been using it for years with zero problems.
4. TiredOfLife ◴[14 Oct 24 12:05 UTC] No.41836723[source]▶
It's not as old, but has a Gui and is native on Linux/Windows/Macos.
5. crossroadsguy ◴[14 Oct 24 12:32 UTC] No.41836914[source]▶
Last time I tried Kopia was more like "select ONE folder to backup and add ONE destination to SNAPSHOT it to". While it is very simplistic and would be lovely in many use cases - for a home/personal backup which often requires granularity of inclusion and exclusion it just didn't make any sense. I am not sure whether that has changed.
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6. riedel ◴[15 Oct 24 17:52 UTC] No.41851126[source]▶
Kopia allows to specify quite different snapshot configurations with patterns etc. I converted old snapshot since 2005 backwards into the same dedup mounted on diverse paths, so I wonder what would be missing.
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7. crossroadsguy ◴[16 Oct 24 04:52 UTC] No.41855738{3}[source]▶
Something like this https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#incl... is missing. Or let's say something like Borg's PATH arg.

i.e multiple files/sources to be backed up to one destination/sink in one go. Not one by one in different snapshots.