chocolatey.veeam-agent
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PowerShell | Perl | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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...
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Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale
Two things I want to try this month are:
https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251
https://rsnapshot.org/
- Backup software that continuously monitors changes but runs only once a month
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Not openSUSE specific but what's the best backup utility?
I'm using rsnapshot. It's based on rsync. It's fully automated and I make daily and monthly backups backup to my NAS. The biggest benefit of rsnapshot is that it uses hardlinks. So only changed files are backed up. It doesn't have a GUI though, you have to set a configuration file.
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Criticize my backup strategy
For backups, I'm using rsnapshot.
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Newbie - How to (image) Backup a rasberry PI
It's been a while but I think rsnapshot is what you're looking for.
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Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
The description sounds like it does largely the same job as rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/). What does yours do differently from rsnapshot?
- Redundancy and bit-rot protection on a single drive
- The fastest rm command and one of the fastest cp commands
- Do you perform offline backups for your NAS?
- Question: Backups anti ransomware
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
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.
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
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
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.
Rdiff-backup - Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.