chocolatey.veeam-agent
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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...
arb
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Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue
Google doesn't care for it's users and Drive is an horrible product. Don't use it. There are better alternatives for backup both on software and host.
https://github.com/danisztls/arbie
This a backup script that I wrote which does in E2E encryption and syncing integrating Borg, Rclone and Gocryptfs.
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Restic: Backups Done Right
It kind is, simple but effective. For comparison, take a look at my over-engineered backup script: https://github.com/danisztls/arbie/blob/main/arbie
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Lost 700 gb worth of projects, codes, data sets, tutorials, reading materials as my external hdd got damaged. It was 4 years worth of work and personal projects.😫 Whats your data loss story?
If you are worried about data privacy you can encrypt it before syncing to cloud using gocryptfs. borg is great for achiving and deduplication. Rclone can be used to sync between more than a hundred providers, including the most free ones, GCP, AWS, etc. I wrote a script to glue them together. Using it for more than a year without problems. https://github.com/lbcnz/arb
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Neo-Backup - backup manager for android
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
borgmatic - Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations
duplicity - mirror of duplicity: https://code.launchpad.net/duplicity
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
tarsnap - Command-line client code for Tarsnap.
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)
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
pass-import - A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers