Rdiff-backup
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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?
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Building static websites
Case study 3: Zola
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Replatforming from Gatsby to Zola!
So after shopping around a bit I found a simple, dependency-less static site generator called Zola. The lack of dependencies sounded very attractive after all the headaches trying to update my Gatsby modules. I wanted to give Zola a try and see what tradeoffs I would need to make coming form a React-based framework to this Rust-based generator.
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Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
I think you're thinking about Zola: https://github.com/getzola/zola
But yes, if I were to recommend something, it'd be Zola given that there's just one executable that you need to run and there's absolutely no setup required.
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
If I were to start again from scratch, I'd likely use Zola as SSG (https://www.getzola.org/)
- Zola – Single binary static site generator
- Zola
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Ask HN: So, static website generators and hosting in 2023/24. What's out there?
I've used Zola (https://github.com/getzola/zola) for a static project homepage a few years ago to showcase examples with a simple description and a wasm app embedded in the page, it worked perfectly for me and the docs was clear on how to use it. It was very easy to set up along with a GitHub action to automatically update the wasm binaries when needed. It is definitely a tool I keep in my mental toolbox as a good default.
- Zola: Your one-stop static site engine
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Gojekyll – 20x faster Go port of jekyll
I'm currently learning https://www.getzola.org/.
It's more manual than idy like but it's gonna be for a small personal and work website so I don't mind much.
It's super fast.
Doesn't seem to fit your use casr but still.
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
eleventy 🕚⚡️ - A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
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)
Nikola - A static website and blog generator
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
Sapper - A lightweight web framework built on hyper, implemented in Rust language.
Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup
Rocket - A web framework for Rust.
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
hakyll - A static website compiler library in Haskell