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Exhaustive list of backup solutions for Linux

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13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
761GitHub stars
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Exhaustive list of backup solutions for Linux

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-02 15:43:09 UTC to 2023-08-23 02:06:19 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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
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 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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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
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In Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful
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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

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