DAR
DAR - Disk ARchive (by Edrusb)
BackDrop
A cold storage backup tool for drives, folders, and network shares (by TechGeek01)
| DAR | BackDrop | |
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| 5 | 8 | |
| 124 | 64 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.9 | 8.7 | |
| 8 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
DAR
Posts with mentions or reviews of DAR.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
dar is the only tool I know of that supports incremental backups to untrusted remote storage. All the remote sees are giant encrypted blobs.
- Backing up a folder to multiple destination drives
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Uploading encrypted zfs volume to cloud
DAR is a linux tool that does incremental updates after a snapshot: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
- MergerFS or some other way to manually cycle disks to backup? (11TB of data backup to multiple 1TB and 2TB disks)
- Is there a backup software solution that treats HDDs like tapes and writes to them in sequence as they're inserted?
BackDrop
Posts with mentions or reviews of BackDrop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
I made BackDrop to solve this. If I have, for example, two folders and two drives, and one folder fits on each drive, I don't want to fill one drive and then spill over to the second drive if it means splitting one folder between two drives. I want the cleanest way possible to copy data to as few drives as possible without splitting folders if they don't need to be.
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Is there software for automating swapping data between mostly full disks?
Just leaving this here in case it could be of some use. https://github.com/TechGeek01/BackDrop
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Differential backups when 2 drives cannot be directly compared/synced
I wrote BackDrop a while back. While this was originally because I was looking for a way to backup to external drives where the data being backed up was larger than the drives, and required splitting between more than one drive, it's evolved since.
- I updated BackDrop to support arbitrary folders instead of just drive letters!
- The backup tool I wrote now supports Linux, and selecting multiple sources. Thought you guys might find it useful!
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Various backup methods?
For manual copies, TeraCopy is awesome, cause you can have it verify files for you. I did actually write my own tool, though that was mostly so that I didn't have to think about handling not all files fitting on one drive (5-6TB of stuff, and a mix of 2-4TB drives). It may or may not suit you, but feel free to give it a look if you're interested. Currently it was designed to back up folders on a network share to a bunch of local drives, so unfortunately, it won't show local drives for source selection (though I'm working on making it able to do that).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing DAR and BackDrop you can also consider the following projects:
DataBase Magazine - Explore Database Magazine, your go-to resource for the latest trends and insights in data protection, backup, and recovery. Access a comprehensive glossary, best practices, FAQs, and valuable resource
Cathy - Cross-platform python implementation of Robert Vasicek's Win-only popular Cathy disk catalog tool
APC - Arduino Pinball Controller
media_management_scripts - Set of tools for managing media libraries
sshash - A compressed, associative, exact, and weighted dictionary for k-mers.
netxms - NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management