rdiff-backup VS Restic

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rdiff-backup mentions (15)

• How do I copy data from one HDD to another using Linux Mint?

  Rdiff-backup - close to what you do currently but at least provides versioning. Based on rsync. Source: about 1 year ago

• Accomplishing What I Want With What I Have

  As in just a copy of your files? This I would barely consider a backup, more of just a mirror from a point in time. What're you missing by doing this? Versions of files, deduplication, and encryption (last one being very important for the best kind of backups, which should be off-site). Just because it's not files doesn't mean it's proprietary. Proprietary would mean secret and undocumented. There are many great... Source: over 1 year ago

• Name a program that doesn't get enough love!

  Rdiff Backup - Reverse differential backups that uses rsync, linking, and can tunnel via ssh. You get a full current backup with increments available to restore any version of the file with minimal storage space used. Source: over 1 year ago

• BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

  Borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. Average size of each borg repo is few GB but there are few outliers up to few hundreds of GB. Borg replaced https://rdiff-backup.net/ for us and gave:. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Advice for Automated Copying of my Off Grid 6TB Media Hoard :)

  Robocopy is great if you don't have access to rsync. If rsync via WSL2 for instance is an option, I'd personally go with rdiffbackup. Source: over 1 year ago

Restic mentions (183)

• Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets?

  I religiously use Google contacts. It's the simplest way to keep people contacts up to date on Android. I archive all important documents in specific folders by subject and date. This is backed up to back blaze with restic. https://restic.net/ I use https://ente.io for pictures. I convinced my wife to use it, and she agreed to auto share her photos so I don't nag her for copies. It had simple import from Facebook... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

  You might be interested in https://restic.net :). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Duplicity

  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. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Duplicity

  +1 for restic. I tried various solutions and restic is the best by far. So fast, so reliable. https://restic.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• best backup for ubuntu ?

  I use and recommend restic. I use it for about 60 machines on my LAN, and it's absolutely fantastic. Source: 5 months ago