syncrclone VS kopia

Context: I am the developer of a "competitor" to bisync called syncrclone. I lay out a good-faith comparison here

I am the author of syncrclone which can do any remotes. It has its own pros and cons. See my comparison

I am the author of another option: syncrclone. I am, of course, biased but I think it actually works better than bisync, has a more robust algorithm, and is more compatible (including with WebDAV remotes). I wrote a good-faith comparison here. It is also more advanced to use including knowing that if you use webdav, you must set compare = 'size' (but hey, now you know!).

Another idea. I am the author of syncrclone, a python wrapper around rclone that does bi-directional sync. It predates bisync but not the other python wrapper on which bisync is based.

Way different experience but I wrote a bidirectional sync tool that wraps rclone and can do it to Dropbox. I use it on Dropbox and OneDrive on my super old macs. My newer ones I just use the native OneDrive client. https://github.com/Jwink3101/syncrclone

More advanced but I wrote my one bi-directional sync tool. I use my tool to keep some thing synced across multiple machines and mount for things I don’t also need locally. It’s not as svelte as how OneDrive keeps things local and remote but it works.

This borrows a lot of ideas (and some code) from my other major rclone tool, syncrclone.

Apparently I love writing wrappers around rclone (syncrclone, lfsrclone, PyFiSync, amongst others).

At home, I use my own tool I built to sync but that is not user friendly really.

This is quite the hack when there is bisync built in or third-party tools that interface directs and will work better. One example, which I built so I am biased, is syncrclone

I think Kopia would be great for your use case

https://kopia.io/

It has a great system to snapshot files but only store data if it's changed. I use it in an environment where I can't use something like zfs to snapshot data because I don't have the ability to make decisions about what filesystem we're using. It's been amazing, love it so much!

Thanks for the tip on Kopia. Setting it up now, looks perfect.

https://github.com/kopia/kopia

Kopia - GitHub

I've been happy with: https://kopia.io/

Fairly easy to configure, does snapshots to S3 and has a icon in my tray I can watch :)

Btw, kopia is one fine backup tool. Apparently borgbackup is good too.

Kopia is great, though it's worth noting for folks on Linux: non-UTF-8 paths aren't stored correctly [1] and xattrs aren't stored [2]. While most folks probably won't care about the former, the latter can could cause issues (eg. losing SELinux labels makes it difficult to restore a backup of the root filesystem on distros that use SELinux).

[1] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1764

[2] https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/544

I think Kopia [1] is on its way to be that. I am sticking to Restic for now but it seems like the strongest contender.

[1]: https://github.com/kopia/kopia

I used their trial for a bit to test it out with Vorta [1] in a container. Vorta (and Borg) seemed to work fine, until I wanted to restore an archive and I noticed that my recent snapshots were completely empty. Probably because of a misconfiguration on my end though. But it made me look elsewhere. For me backups should be a fire, test and forget solution.

Recently I made the switch to Kopia [2] which seems to have feature parity with Borg (and Restic [3]). It also has a web UI which is way easier to work with than Vorta. And I can easily view, extract and restore individual files or folders from there. This gave me way more confidence about this solution. The only thing I really miss is that I cannot chose different targets for different paths. For instance, with Borg I was able to backup a partial of my Docker appdata to an external source. And I haven't found a way to do this with Kopia. Besides that I'm pretty happy with this solution and I would recommend it.

1. https://vorta.borgbase.com/

2. https://kopia.io/

3. https://restic.net/

There's a few. Off the top of my head

https://github.com/kopia/kopia