Barman vs lvm2

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Barman		lvm2
	Project
1	Mentions	1
1,842	Stars	116
2.2%	Growth	6.9%
8.6	Activity	8.8
9 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Python	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Barman

Posts with mentions or reviews of Barman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Oracle RMAN equivalent backup tool for PostgreSQL
1 project | /r/PostgreSQL | 11 Apr 2021

Why chose it over Barman?

lvm2

Posts with mentions or reviews of lvm2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Good start to a homelab?
1 project | /r/homelab | 11 Jul 2023

This is an incredibly high performance setup. But it can only get full data integrity checksums / bitrot protection with some more intensive workarounds with custom patched LVM installs to allow early release features. More info toward the bottom of this thread: https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues/92

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Barman and lvm2 you can also consider the following projects:

pgBackRest - Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

TimeShift - System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

Bareos - Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

Backup - Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Rsnapshot - a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

Lsyncd - Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

backy2 - backy2: Deduplicating block based backup software for ceph/rbd, image files and devices