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Kopia mentions (26)

• DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only File System

  I think Kopia would be great for your use case https://kopia.io/ It has a great system to snapshot files but only store data if it's changed. I use it in an environment where I can't use something like zfs to snapshot data because I don't have the ability to make decisions about what filesystem we're using. It's been amazing, love it so much! - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• I Backup

  I've been happy with: https://kopia.io/ Fairly easy to configure, does snapshots to S3 and has a icon in my tray I can watch :). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Very strange behavior/bug - devices stuck together

  Btw, kopia is one fine backup tool. Apparently borgbackup is good too. Source: 6 months ago

• Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days – recovery is at 26%

  I used their trial for a bit to test it out with Vorta [1] in a container. Vorta (and Borg) seemed to work fine, until I wanted to restore an archive and I noticed that my recent snapshots were completely empty. Probably because of a misconfiguration on my end though. But it made me look elsewhere. For me backups should be a fire, test and forget solution. Recently I made the switch to Kopia [2] which seems to... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Self-hosted backup manager with web UI?

  Check kopia - https://kopia.io/ Duplicati was nice for me until my first Complete DR test.... Then I trash it , and burn it with fire.... Other comments already pint you to why so I will not extend to it.... Source: 11 months ago

FreeFileSync mentions (203)

• Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?

  FreeFileSync https://freefilesync.org/ I have been a happy user for years and have made a donation too. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Which synchronization tool are you using together with the pCloud Crypto Folder?

  FreeFileSync messed up my pCloud database a couple times at first (causing disappearing files in the Crypto Folder, mirroring of the same files over and over again). Pcloud support provided an easy way to fix the database. To fix the root cause, one needs to exclude FreeFileSync's temporary files from the backup: pCloud Drive > Settings > Backup/Sync Exclusions, exclude sync.ffs_lock and *.ffs_tmp. Source: 6 months ago

• Why are file backups so slow on Windows 11?

  As per Apprehensive_Arm_754 answer below, https://freefilesync.org is the solution to my particular problem, since it allows all kind of simple rules and logic to apply, so I can make sure that the copy only happens in one direction, and only ever by file date etc. Much appreciated. Source: 6 months ago

• Why are file backups so slow on Windows 11?

  I use this one: https://freefilesync.org. Source: 6 months ago

• Is it possible to sync Calibre configuration between Mac and Windows continuously?

  It was me, I'd probably play around with setting up shared folders of preferences and plug-ins and whatnot on something like dropbox or Google Drive. There are various folder sinking tools on both platforms such as free file sync on Windows. Since they are two completely different platforms, I don't know how interchangeable some of the preferences or plugins would be. I haven't used a Mac in a 100 years. Source: 6 months ago