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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 2 months 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 / 4 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 / 4 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

rsync mentions (13)

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

  Rsync can be used to synchronize a local disk to the pCloud drive p. Works similarly as the Sync option of the pCloud Drive app. May be useful if one prefers a bulk upload once a day over a continuous synchronization. Source: 5 months ago

• Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies

  Tools that can be used to handle this include Rsync, Duplicati, Cohesity. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Use rsync to Sync a Node Project to Dropbox and Ignore the node modules Folder

  To overcome this issue, you can use rsync, a powerful command-line tool for synchronizing files and directories, along with a bash script that excludes the node_modules folder and also filter out anything in a .gitignore file that you specify. In this article, I'll guide you through the process of setting up and using this bash script to sync your Node.js project while ignoring the node_modules folder. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• i have seen a video about syncthing and I am interested, but I would have a slightly different use case

  Rsync will probably work better for this use case. Source: about 1 year ago

• [Q] paperless-ngx: migrate to new host with UTF8 files?

  Give rsync a try, it should handle UTF filenames just fine. Source: over 1 year ago