duplicity
chocolatey.veeam-agent
| duplicity | chocolatey.veeam-agent | |
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| 4 | 1 | |
| 80 | 1 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.7 | |
| about 2 years ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Python | PowerShell | |
| - | MIT License |
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duplicity
- Restic: Backups Done Right
- Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
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I recently learned about CHANGELOG and have a few questions about them
Well, depends on you. There are projects, that more or less put every commit into the CHANGELOG (there are even tools for this) or every PR. (Example)
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Encrypted Backup Shootout
duplicity (python) - https://github.com/henrysher/duplicity
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...
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
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
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
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.
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!
Bup - Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images). Please post problems or patches to the mailing list for discussion (see the end of the README below).