Bup VS autorestic

The presented idea (one folder per commit, as FUSE fs) seems indeed largely impractical.

But there are good uses for mountable "git like" repos. For example for backup systems.

https://github.com/bup/bup

For example bup

https://github.com/bup/bup ?

Recently testing bup https://bup.github.io

You may really like https://github.com/bup/bup if you want something a bit more modern but in the same style

That's really good to hear! They got a (well deserved!) 100M investment recently. I didn't know it until recently, but apenwarr made some of my favourite tools (sshuttle, bup) and now tailscale! If you come across the podcast again, please post the link, I'd love to listen to it.

https://bup.github.io/

I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

[3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

[4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

I have looked up and found restic to be a good choice for the many advantages it provides (reduplication, incremental copies, encryption, free, ...). I looked also at the many projects built on it to make it easier to configure (resticker, autorestic). I already made a simple test locally for my MainPC (with docker swarm) and it seems to be fine.

You should consider setting up something like restic (maybe w/ autorestic) or borg and getting proper incremental backups.

I’m also using Autorestic to configure Restic via a YAML file, and I recently wrote an Ansible role to do this across multiple devices 🙂 if interested you can check it out here: https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-autorestic

There's also [autorestic][https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic), it's worth checking.

The majority of my storage will be large media, documents, and the like that won't update much and I plan to do the backup with autorestic so I'll only be backing up the file changes (which won't be many/frequent).

Autorestic wraps restic in YAML config files, and for that I am very grateful.

https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

Maybe autorestic or rclone.

There’s also a wrapper for restic to make management easier using yaml config (autorestic) and a well-regarded docker image (resticker)