Duplicity VS Back In Time

Compare Duplicity vs Back In Time and see what are their differences.

Duplicity

Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup (by hcarvalhoalves)

Back In Time

Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back (by bit-team)
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Duplicity Back In Time
7 38
50 1,822
- 3.9%
0.0 8.9
over 12 years ago 2 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Duplicity

Posts with mentions or reviews of Duplicity. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-13.
  • Restic: Backups Done Right
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2021
    http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ at least can use PGP public keys. I've used it for a long time and not seen any particular reason to change.
  • Encrypt channel.backup?
    2 projects | /r/lightningnetwork | 23 Sep 2021
    There are backup tools with built-in encryption like borg backup or duplicity, these should be fine. If you already have a backup process and it's missing encryption then you should be able to use e.g. age or gpg.
  • What is everyone using to backup their multiple TB's of data?
    2 projects | /r/PleX | 29 Jun 2021
    For my family photos (critical, irreplaceable, on plex), I use duplicity which can make use of Amazon Glacier and Deep Archive for really cheap storage (0.00099 /gb /month no joke) with incremental versioning and client side encryption. Long restore time, but perfect for disaster recovery on data that doesn't change much. Want to set up the same for music (which rarely but sometimes changes, e.g. Correcting tags).
  • What do you wish you knew before starting grad school?
    2 projects | /r/GradSchool | 31 May 2021
    And google docs / apple cloud etc. aren't proper backups. They can cancel your account, be inaccessible, or hacked even. There's software like duplicity that can upload encrypted backups to multiple services, which are handy. But in any case, if you're doing cloud backups, do do redundant local backups too. My setup is I've a USB stick tacked onto a Raspberry Pi computer, and use something called borg to do daily backups over SSH.
  • Happy World Backup Day!
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 31 Mar 2021
    I have had good success using [Duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) via [Duply](https://www.duply.net/) for a few years now. The main point for me is that duplicity directly backs up to many cloud-storage endpoints. I'm using google drive specifically, but it supports a ton of options.

Back In Time

Posts with mentions or reviews of Back In Time. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-29.
  • Why is contributing soo hard
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 29 Sep 2023
    Back In Time is a round about 15 years old backup software using rsync in the back. I'm part of the 3rd generation maintenance team there. A lot of work in investigating and fixing issues, understanding, documenting and refactoring old code.
  • Free Software project "Back In Time" requests for translators
    2 projects | /r/localization | 1 Jul 2023
    Most of the strings are form two past developers (the founder and the past maintainer). Since last summer we took over the project and try to clean things up. Some of the source strings just got a review from a linguist and he also mentioned about that exclamation marks. But he kind of stopped at some point because it was to much. ;)
    2 projects | /r/localization | 1 Jul 2023
    Sources strings are source. So you have to open an Issue/BugReport for that. The platform (weblate) don't offer that feature currently to directly connect a string to a new ticket. You have to check out https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues .
  • How do you make the jump from intermediate to expert?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 28 May 2023
  • Newb learning GitHub & Python. Projects?
    4 projects | /r/github | 22 Jan 2023
    Back In Time
  • looking for a project
    3 projects | /r/github | 22 Dec 2022
    Back In Time is a project born round about the year 2008. A rsync-based backup software with a GUI for Linux. It seems that there is a new team of maintainers reanimating the project with support from the previous maintainer. It looks like it is on a good way.
  • General tips for Debian-newbie?
    4 projects | /r/debian | 16 May 2022
    People need to stop recommending rsync for backups. Some reasonable, time-tested software suggestions are Back In Time, Borg+Vorta, and my minimal CLI choice, rdiff-backup.
  • What are you doing for your backups?
    4 projects | /r/linux | 26 Apr 2022
    I use backintime to back up files in my home directory, and use Timeshift for backing up system settings (really useful if you're messing around with your grub and fuck something up, speaking from experience).
  • Encrypted system back ups: Nextcloud or Rsync?
    3 projects | /r/NextCloud | 21 Feb 2022
  • Best and easiest way to backup?
    2 projects | /r/pop_os | 17 Feb 2022
    I use BackInTime for userspace backups, Timeshift for system files.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Duplicity and Back In Time you can also consider the following projects:

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.

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

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)

Rdiff-backup - Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.

snapper-gui - GUI for snapper, a tool for Linux filesystem snapshot management, works with btrfs, ext4 and thin-provisioned LVM volumes