chocolatey.veeam-agent
kopia
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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...
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
https://kopia.io/
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.
https://github.com/kopia/kopia
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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).
[1] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1764
[2] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/544
- 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.
[1]: https://github.com/kopia/kopia
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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.
1. https://vorta.borgbase.com/
2. https://kopia.io/
3. https://restic.net/
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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
https://github.com/kopia/kopia
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
duplicity - mirror of duplicity: https://code.launchpad.net/duplicity
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
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
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
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)
restic-wrapper - Simple bash wrapper to source .env configuration files for Restic. Facilitates both manual CLI execution and scheduled (cron) execution.