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UrBackup
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Home backup solution?
UrBackup https://www.urbackup.org/ is the one that I use for years
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Smartli Backup - Secure and Easy Data Backup Solution
If anyone came here looking for good quality, open source and free backup software I recommend UrBackup and Kopia.
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Kopia – incremental backups, encryption, compression, data deduplication
Kopia does not 'image' your whole machine.
A real shame imaging is the time saving component if a system is not recoverable. People want to get their systems up and running as fast as possible.
A combination of imaging and file back up is the best way to do that. For now I'll stick with http://www.urbackup.org/
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Backup programs question
UrBackup
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How do I copy data from one HDD to another using Linux Mint?
urBackup - best if backing up multiple machines and wanting a centralized tool *BorgBackup - best all-around tried-and-true backup solutions but has no native windows client.
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Just finished migrating my old tower servers to a Kubernetes cluster on my new rack!
For backups I use UrBackup, and with the UrBackup Client container, I can back up each application's persistent volumes. I run it in Docker for now, and store backups on a BTRFS Zvol in my ZFS array. Though technically it's not totally safe to backup databases this way, I have not run into many issues going this. Restoring or migrating is as simple as spinning up my helm chart on the new server (with only the client and its Persistent Volume Claims active), hitting restore, and then upgrading the deployment with the actual databases and services.
The top server has 3x12TB HDD's in a ZFS array. I use this with a Docker instance (in case the cluster fails) of UrBackup as my backup solution. Each one of my Kubernetes deployments backs up to the server and I can easily restore them with a click of a button.
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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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Advice for Automated Copying of my Off Grid 6TB Media Hoard :)
That makes more sense - you could probably squeeze more reliability out of your current setup by incorporating incremental backups; most backup software should be fine running locally and backing up to an external drive on demand. Urbackup is a solid open source option, but there are tons of choices in the backup space.
- Selfhosted backup server and open source client
BorgBackup
- I Backup
- Ask HN: For what purposes do you use a Raspberry Pi?
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Duplicity
I used this many, many years ago but switched to Borg[0] about five years ago. Duplicity required full backups with incremental deltas, which meant my backups ended up using too much disk space. Borg lets you prune older backups at will, because of chunk tracking and deduplication there is no such thing as an incremental backup.
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Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Borg 2 has been in development for nearly a year and a half [1] and may probably be released early next year, i.e., early 2024 (just a guess, seeing that even RC1 is not yet released and seems to have a lot of work to be done).
Does anyone know how Borg 1.x and 2 would compare to Kopia?
- Home backup solution?
- My deduplication solution written in Rust beats everything else: casync, borg...
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Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?
2. Borgbackup [0] with Borgmatic [1], daily backups to another server which also has Raid1
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Migrating to openSUSE.
Others have answered your questions well enough, but I'll take on 6. This doesn't seem to make sense to me. If you want to use rsync for backups you can just use a cron job for this. I've used rysnc for years for backups and it worked great and is still a good tool to know. But for backups I now use Borg which is much better as a backup utility and can be scripted. It's a deduplicating archive that can be encrypted which has big advantages over rsync. And there are even more backup programs that beat rsync for sure.
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Arch noob
Establishing a backup strategy. I'm using BTRFS with snapper and a pacman hook that creates a new snapshot before each upgrade. With ext4 I used timeshift. Besides that, I save my arch configuration with aconfmgr and my files with borg
What are some alternatives?
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup
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)
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
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.
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.
Backuppc - BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk.
Bareos - Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.
borgmatic - Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations
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).