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others
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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
others
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Backup software
Also see Restic's list of Linux backup software. https://github.com/restic/others
- Restic 0.14.0 released with compression support
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Restic 0.13.0
There is also https://github.com/restic/others which has some keywords (e.g. is it encrypted, does it do compression) for most FOSS backup solutions. It can be outdated or incomplete for some entries, though.
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What free and open source backup software do you recommend that works on Windows?
https://github.com/restic/others is a nice collection of free software links too - you can click through those and see if any are Windows supporting. But I'd personally just go with restic.
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Backblaze for Personal Backup
Backblaze is an awful piece of software when you look at it from “a backup software” point of view. It’s made pretty, simple, native (or is it Electron now?) - yes. But then it stops there. On top of that if you read there ifs, buts, and gotchas you’d want to stay far away from them.
They’ve downright absurd data deletion/retention and versioning rules.
Besides I do not trust any service that promises to give anything “unlimited” for a fixed cost.
As I usually mention in comments on this topic - I’d strongly urge people to use and support backup tools like borgbackup.org (Vorta is an excellent Borg GUI), restic.net (a GUI is glaringly missing), kopia.io (up and coming; promising; comes with a GUI), for smaller datasets there’s very good but more expansive Tarsnap (not FOSS).
And then there are others - https://github.com/restic/others#list-of-backup-software
- Restic: Backups Done Right
- Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Neo-Backup - backup manager for android
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
bupstash - Easy and efficient encrypted backups.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
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)
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.
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).
casync - Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool