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While rsync does incremental backups fine, it doesn't offer deduplication. If you want that, have a look around at newer options like restic or others such as borg (see a comprehensive list at https://github.com/restic/others)

There is also https://github.com/restic/others which has some keywords (e.g. is it encrypted, does it do compression) for most FOSS backup solutions. It can be outdated or incomplete for some entries, though.

Borg supports local and SFTP backups while Restic supports more (a lot more). S3, Google Cloud, B2, etc. In fact, they integrate with rclone so anything you can access using rclone, you can backup to using Restic. Borg uses compression while Restic does not. Restic just uses deduplication so your backups with Restic will likely be larger in size. Anyway, that's what jumps to mind. They're both pretty great honestly (in terms of community support and reliability). There are a lot of other options too btw. The Restic repo has a pretty good list [1] [1] https://github.com/restic/others

Backblaze is an awful piece of software when you look at it from “a backup software” point of view. It’s made pretty, simple, native (or is it Electron now?) - yes. But then it stops there. On top of that if you read the ifs, buts, and gotchas you’d want to stay far away from them. They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules. Besides I do not trust any service that promises to give anything “unlimited” for a fixed cost. As I usually mention in comments on this topic - I’d strongly urge people to use and support backup tools like borgbackup.org (Vorta is an excellent GUI), restic.net (a GUI is glaringly missing), kopia.io (up and coming; comes with a GUI), for smaller datasets there’s very good but more expansive Tarsnap (not FOSS). And then there are others - https://github.com/restic/others#list-of-backup-softwa

And yet again: A list of alternatives. attic (python) - https://github.com/jborg/attic borg (c) - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg bupstash (rust) - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash duplicacy (go) - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy duplicati (c#) - https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati duplicity (python) - https://github.com/henrysher/duplicity kopia (go) - https://github.com/kopia/kopia nfreezer (python) - https://github.com/josephernest/nfreezer rdedup (rust) - https://github.com/dpc/rdedup restic (go) - https://github.com/restic/restic rclone (go) - https://github.com/rclone/rclone rsnapshot (perl) - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu tarsnap (c) - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap I think there are many more out there (https://github.com/restic/others) - I personal

And yet again: A list of alternatives. attic (python) - https://github.com/jborg/attic borg (c) - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg bupstash (rust) - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash duplicacy (go) - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy duplicati (c#) - https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati duplicity (python) - https://github.com/henrysher/duplicity kopia (go) - https://github.com/kopia/kopia nfreezer (python) - https://github.com/josephernest/nfreezer rdedup (rust) - https://github.com/dpc/rdedup restic (go) - https://github.com/restic/restic rclone (go) - https://github.com/rclone/rclone rsnapshot (perl) - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu tarsnap (c) - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap I think there are many more out there (https://github.com/restic/others) - I personal

> Is there an overview somewhere of all the different solutions? https://github.com/restic/others

Lets make a list : attic (python) - https://github.com/jborg/attic borg (c) - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg bupstash (rust) - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash duplicacy (go) - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy duplicati (c#) - https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati duplicity (python) - https://github.com/henrysher/duplicity kopia (go) - https://github.com/kopia/kopia nfreezer (python) - https://github.com/josephernest/nfreezer rdedup (rust) - https://github.com/dpc/rdedup restic (go) - https://github.com/restic/restic rclone (go) - https://github.com/rclone/rclone rsnapshot (perl) - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu tarsnap (c) - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap I think there are many more out there (https://github.com/restic/others) - I personally use restic whi

If you're reading this and concerned for your own backup story, fret not! In 2019 secure off-premise backups are super easy to implement, even for a 1 person shop. Get something like Restic or Borg or any one of the enumerated options here: https://github.com/restic/others I've recently implemented backups with Restic, the static binary and plethora of supported storage backends was extremely appealing. The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy.

After using the discounted small business version till this month I finally moved my backup to: restic [0] + B2. It was really just a 30m job and I have a setup that backups 4 times a day and prunes etc twice a week. You might want to checkout their forum if you need any help. I had tried Borg and duplicity [1] too but found restic to be perfect for my need. I also have Tarsnap[2] for the double backup of my most important data. [0] http://restic.net https://github.com/restic/restic. This project also lists alternatives with supported feature list https://github.com/restic/others [1] http://borgbackup.org, http://duplicity.nongnu.org [2] https://www.tarsnap.com and has a simple but functional Qt GUI https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap-gui

While everyone is of course free to start his/hers project there is a whole bunch of projects which basically does the same thing like: deduplication, client can append backups only, server side client backup rotation / pruning, etc. For example restic ( https://restic.net/ ) does everything the author describes in the ideal feature set ( https://packnback.github.io/blog/work_begins/ ) except for asymmetric encrpytion. Though there is an issue open for that and iirc they are working on it. Contributing to that project would probably be easier? Another existing very interesting project to contribute to is rdedup ( https://github.com/dpc/rdedup ) which is written in Rust. There is a whole list over here of existing backup solutions: https://github.com/restic/others Judging from the comparisons made in the introduction blog post by the autho

There are few more similar project such as Restic (Go) and rdedup (Rust). https://github.com/restic/others https://github.com/dpc/rdedup