Based on our record, Duplicity seems to be a lot more popular than bup. While we know about 11 links to Duplicity, we've tracked only 1 mention of bup. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I have been using bup https://bup.github.io and a cron job for a long time. Source: about 3 years ago
Overbuilt and OTT? Sure... But this works fantastically for my use case. I have current backups of everything except my media library because of the size of it; my VM's are all backed up to my Synology nightly using Backy2, my application data gets dumped to that same Synology NAS nightly as well, and all of that also gets synced to Glacier deep storage once a week using Duplicity. I'm going to be adding a new ZFS... Source: 12 months ago
There are some backup tools in this thread. Duplicati, rsync, restic, Duplicity, Syncthing. Source: over 1 year ago
Here are a couple of projects that implement what you seem to be trying to do: https://duplicity.gitlab.io , https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html# . You could either use them or just look at the scripts for ideas Writing your own script is a great exercise but a robust, historical and conveniently accessible backup system is more complicated. (I personally use rsnapshot to an encrypted drive... Source: over 1 year ago
GUI based on https://duplicity.gitlab.io/. Source: over 1 year ago
Most people I've seen use either Pika Backup (Borg backend) or Déjà Dup (Duplicity backend). Source: over 1 year ago
Borg Backup - Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption
Duplicati - Free backup software to store backups online with strong encryption. Works with FTP, SSH, WebDAV, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Google Drive and many others.
BURP - Burp is a network backup and restore program.
SpiderOak - SpiderOak makes it possible for you to privately store, sync, share & access your data from everywhere.
rsync - rsync is a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync.
Restic - Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it.