qimgv
Rdiff-backup
qimgv | Rdiff-backup | |
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15 | 32 | |
2,032 | 1,038 | |
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5.7 | 8.3 | |
14 days ago | about 19 hours ago | |
C++ | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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qimgv
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"How i learned about Firefox MPRIS" - or - "[PSA/FYI] Add years to your life by avoiding this critical 'WTF?!?' moment."
about this time, i am a little more than intrigued and a bit confused. i use my image viewing program qimgv (github) by typing qimvg 87956_60.png and was shown a photograph of a man seemingly turning his head to look at me.
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Name a program that doesn't get enough love!
qimgv - Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support. Very powerful, qt app, best for me.
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Lightweight photo viewer with frameless feature
I use qimgv, It's mostly frameless (It only has a window bar), supports going left and right through images, even sorted by date and even on a directory with 80k+ files in it. It also has some very useful features in the right-click menu and also has a folder view and is highly customizable.
- A simple and smart image viewer
- Looking for a fullscreen image viewer with vertical scrolling
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Most hardcore data compression method / offline software?
I don't know exactly what you mean by "nothing", but JPEG XL is already supported for almost all image viewers on Linux installing the libjxl plugin system wide, and on Windows good image viewers like XnView, IrfanView e my personal favorite qimgv, and all most used browsers already supports jpeg xl, however is not enable by default and you need to enable it in the hide settings, but I agree that you probably will not want to use jxl if you are sharing images to other people all the time on different platforms and can't bother to decode before doing, or are using it on other devices that don't use a desktop OS, that is way I only recommend it to people that like "bleeding edge" stuff, my first recommendation is still use something like pingo if the original format is a must.
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Simple image viewer with no inconveniences
My personal favorite is qimgv. It even supports videos with an additional download, which is awesome for me.
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The median AVIF and WebP images are 1.5x more efficient than JPEGs, 3x more than PNGs, and 5x more than GIFs. Why aren't they more popular?
qimgv can also save AVIF
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7zip gang where u at?
7zip, Rufus, BleachBit, Bulk Crap Uninstaller, SpeedCrunch, ShareX, Keypirinha, Everything, OBS, qimgv and of course Nextcloud are all the essential free/open source software I need.
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Image viewer with gallery preview
qimgv (Qt) - https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv
Rdiff-backup
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Duplicity
For starters it has a tendency to paint itself into a corner on ENOSPC situations. You won't even be able to perform a restore if a backup was started but unfinished because it ran out of space. There's this process of "regressing" the repo [0] which must occur before you can do practically anything after an interrupted/failed backup. What this actually must do is undo the partial forward progress, by performing what's effectively a restore of the files that got pushed into the future relative to the rest of the repository, which requires more space. Unless you have/can create free space to do these things, it can become wedged... and if it's a dedicated backup system where you've intentionally filled disks up with restore points, you can find yourself having to throw out backups just to make things functional again - even ability to restore is affected.
That's the most obvious glaring problem, beyond that it's just kind of garbage in terms of the amount of space and time it requires to perform restores. Especially restores of files having many reverse-differential increments leading back to the desired restore point. It can require 2X the file's size in spare space to assemble the desired version, while it iteratively reconstructs all the intermediate versions in arriving at the desired version. Unless someone fixed this since I last had to deal with it, which is possible.
Source: Ages ago I worked for a startup[1] that shipped a backup appliance originally implemented by contractors using rdiff-backup. Writing a replacement that didn't suck but was compatible with rdiff-backup's repos consumed several years of my life...
There are far better options in 2024.
[0] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/blob/master/src...
[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/axcient
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Trying to install rdiff-backup on an Oracle Cloud Red Hat VM.
and that should install the latest version, rdiff-backup-2.2.4-2.el8.x86_64.rpm. This is all described in the rdiff-backup README file.
- Cache operation: archive
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How do I copy data from one HDD to another using Linux Mint?
Rdiff-backup - close to what you do currently but at least provides versioning. Based on rsync
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Accomplishing What I Want With What I Have
as in just a copy of your files? This I would barely consider a backup, more of just a mirror from a point in time. What're you missing by doing this? versions of files, deduplication, and encryption (last one being very important for the best kind of backups, which should be off-site). Just because it's not files doesn't mean it's proprietary. Proprietary would mean secret and undocumented. There are many great options. Borg is my favorite but Kopia is probably better if you use windows, urbackup is an option if you want centralized management of backups and rdiff-backup is if you want something kinda what you have currently but adding versioning but lacks deduplication and encryption.
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Backup software recommendation
If you're comfortable with the cli and you want to have your backup in a plain file format with some incremental backups, there's rdiffbackup. It uses rsync under the hood and has worked quite well for me.
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Name a program that doesn't get enough love!
Rdiff Backup - Reverse differential backups that uses rsync, linking, and can tunnel via ssh. You get a full current backup with increments available to restore any version of the file with minimal storage space used.
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BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. average size of each borg repo is few GB but there are few outliers up to few hundreds of GB.
borg replaced https://rdiff-backup.net/ for us and gave:
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Advice for Automated Copying of my Off Grid 6TB Media Hoard :)
Robocopy is great if you don't have access to rsync. If rsync via WSL2 for instance is an option, I'd personally go with rdiffbackup.
- Do incremental backups generally store only the delta of each file change or the entire new file?
What are some alternatives?
nomacs - nomacs is a free image viewer for windows, linux, and mac systems.
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
linux-vr-player-or-something - Very simple VR video player using libmpv and openhmd.
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)
UltimateMangaReader - A feature-rich online manga reader for Kobo E-Ink devices based on Qt5.
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
KittehPlayer - A video player based on Qt, QML and libmpv with themes for many online video players.
Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup
vimiv-qt - An image viewer with vim-like keybindings
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux