chocolatey.veeam-agent
BorgBackup
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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chocolatey.veeam-agent
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Restic: Backups Done Right
My understanding is that full system backups on Windows requires the tool to create VSS snapshots and back up from the snapshot. Any tool that just copies files on the disk won't work.
I use Veeam Agent for this purpose (free, but not open source). It can do full system backups and supports both restoring to the same hardware and new hardware. Restores are done via a bootable WinPE-based image that the tool creates.
One cool thing about it I haven't seen in other backup software is that incremental backups work via a driver that tracks which disk blocks are changed as the system is running. It avoids the need to rescan the disk to detect what has been changed (though it will still do that if the filesystem is modified outside of Windows, eg. if dual booting).
The biggest downside is Veeam's website. It's pretty "enterprisey" and they want you to register to be able to download. I install via the Chocolatey package manager to avoid this. Chocolatey's package source has a direct link to the official installer [0].
There are no ads, nagging, nor upselling in the software itself. I have not seen it making any network connections outside of connecting to my backup target host and the auto-updates server.
I've been looking for open source alternative with a similar feature set, but haven't had too much luck. There's Bacula, but that seems to very much be designed for an enterprise use case.
[0] https://github.com/sbaerlocher/chocolatey.veeam-agent/blob/m...
BorgBackup
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Ask HN: Open-source Windows 11 backup solutions
i use - and recommend - "borgbackup": for example with the "vorta" graphical frontend
* https://www.borgbackup.org/
* https://vorta.borgbase.com/install/windows/
just my 0.02€
- I Backup
- Ask HN: For what purposes do you use a Raspberry Pi?
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Duplicity
I used this many, many years ago but switched to Borg[0] about five years ago. Duplicity required full backups with incremental deltas, which meant my backups ended up using too much disk space. Borg lets you prune older backups at will, because of chunk tracking and deduplication there is no such thing as an incremental backup.
[0] https://www.borgbackup.org/
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What do you use for VPS backup? Would improved borg setup - pull mode - be enough? Or, do you use something else?
Currently, I'm auto-backing it up with borg (push mode) through wireguard tunnel to NAS behind ISP's CGNAT. The borg takes care of deduplication in SQL file, so incremental update (even in append-only mode) is very small for PostgreSQL dump.
- Borg CVE fix requires migration
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Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Borg 2 has been in development for nearly a year and a half [1] and may probably be released early next year, i.e., early 2024 (just a guess, seeing that even RC1 is not yet released and seems to have a lot of work to be done).
Does anyone know how Borg 1.x and 2 would compare to Kopia?
[1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6602
- Home backup solution?
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disc space is not freeing
You could use borgbackup.
- My deduplication solution written in Rust beats everything else: casync, borg...
What are some alternatives?
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
duplicity - mirror of duplicity: https://code.launchpad.net/duplicity
Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
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)
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.
kopia - Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux