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Python2014–2021
jborg / attic

attic

Deduplicating backup program

9Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Deduplicating backup program

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-03 06:41:45 UTC to 2021-11-13 14:35:38 UTC.

0123452014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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ly use restic while technology wise (speed, only restore needs password) i would prefer rdedup which is an impressive piece of software but unfortunately without file iterator... :-)
In Restic – Backups Done Right
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ly use restic while technology wise (speed, only restore needs password) i would prefer rdedup which is an impressive piece of software but unfortunately without file iterator... :-)
In Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
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le technology wise (speed, only restore needs password) i would prefer rdedup which is an impressive piece of software but unfortunately without file iterator... :-)
In Encrypted Backup Shootout
The results don't look very complete seeing as how attic was abandoned over two years ago. The master attic branch[0] has 600 commits. The fork of attic, borg, has over 4000 commits [1] suggesting a significant amount of work has been done to improve it. It seems odd for the author to compare it to something abandoned (and thankfully reborn as borg) and ignore what has happened in two years. Would love to see similar tests run against borg. [0] https://github.com/jborg/attic [1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
In A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity
This fork of https://attic-backup.org/ was never submitted as an independent submission (though it has been mentioned in comments a couple of times). I decided to submit it and hopefully it will generate some insights/review/discussion, especially when compared to its parent attic (which has been talked about a lot here). (disclaimer: I am not a dev of either project, just a user) For some context: the discussion thread (issue # 217[1]) that (probably) led to this fork. [1] https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues/217
In BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program

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