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casync
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We reduced conda’s index fetch bandwidth by 99%
For arbitrary state changes however, it's better to use something like casync. Note that there are a lot of tunables, implicit and explicit; for package indexing I would particularly think about "how is the index sorted" and "what is the desired chunk size".
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Intro to Content Defined Chunking
If you just want something practical to play with, see casync. Even if it doesn't fit your workflow, or if you think you can do better, chances are you're best off building on top of it or adding patches to it, not starting from scratch.
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Tool to clone file structure without the large files themselves?
You probably want casync.
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A Nibble of Content-Defined Chunking - How de-duplicated, incremental file transfer works
Obligatory link to casync, which implements this better than most alternatives.
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LibSQL – a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions
(personally, I think more people need to be aware of casync for the update storage/distribution problem. It isn't perfect for every use case, but it's good enough that you're probably better off wrapping/forking it rather than reimplementing it badly from scratch)
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improving download infra
Does something like casync (https://github.com/systemd/casync or https://github.com/folbricht/desync) serve any purpose or provide any advantage to propagating rpm changes over rsync?
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Are there any true alternatives to Seafile? (Nextcloud is not an alternative in this context)
Software that comes to mind for syncing lots of small files: git (and other source versioning tools), casync (https://github.com/systemd/casync) and a go implementation (https://github.com/folbricht/desync). Not really an answer and I can't think of a way to shoehorn that into your workflow, but maybe it leads you down a useful road.
- Casync – A Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool
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Hacker News top posts: Apr 23, 2022
Casync – A Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool\ (15 comments)
kopia
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DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only File System
I think Kopia would be great for your use case
It has a great system to snapshot files but only store data if it's changed. I use it in an environment where I can't use something like zfs to snapshot data because I don't have the ability to make decisions about what filesystem we're using. It's been amazing, love it so much!
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Ask HN: Open-source Windows 11 backup solutions
Thanks for the tip on Kopia. Setting it up now, looks perfect.
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Building a Managed Service Provider Business With Open Source
Kopia - GitHub
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I Backup
I've been happy with: https://kopia.io/
Fairly easy to configure, does snapshots to S3 and has a icon in my tray I can watch :)
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Very strange behavior/bug - devices stuck together
Btw, kopia is one fine backup tool. Apparently borgbackup is good too.
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Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Kopia is great, though it's worth noting for folks on Linux: non-UTF-8 paths aren't stored correctly [1] and xattrs aren't stored [2]. While most folks probably won't care about the former, the latter can could cause issues (eg. losing SELinux labels makes it difficult to restore a backup of the root filesystem on distros that use SELinux).
- Kopia: Open-Source Backup Software
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How I backup my servers (2023)
I think Kopia [1] is on its way to be that. I am sticking to Restic for now but it seems like the strongest contender.
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Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days – recovery is at 26%
I used their trial for a bit to test it out with Vorta [1] in a container. Vorta (and Borg) seemed to work fine, until I wanted to restore an archive and I noticed that my recent snapshots were completely empty. Probably because of a misconfiguration on my end though. But it made me look elsewhere. For me backups should be a fire, test and forget solution.
Recently I made the switch to Kopia [2] which seems to have feature parity with Borg (and Restic [3]). It also has a web UI which is way easier to work with than Vorta. And I can easily view, extract and restore individual files or folders from there. This gave me way more confidence about this solution. The only thing I really miss is that I cannot chose different targets for different paths. For instance, with Borg I was able to backup a partial of my Docker appdata to an external source. And I haven't found a way to do this with Kopia. Besides that I'm pretty happy with this solution and I would recommend it.
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Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot (STT, LLM, TTS, auth, payments)
There's a few. Off the top of my head
What are some alternatives?
tarsnap - Command-line client code for Tarsnap.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
desync - Alternative casync implementation
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
magic-trace - magic-trace collects and displays high-resolution traces of what a process is doing
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
restic-wrapper - Simple bash wrapper to source .env configuration files for Restic. Facilitates both manual CLI execution and scheduled (cron) execution.