UrBackup VS borgmatic

UrBackup https://www.urbackup.org/ is the one that I use for years

If anyone came here looking for good quality, open source and free backup software I recommend UrBackup and Kopia.

Free, open source, maintained regularly: www.urbackup.org

I'm looking at https://www.urbackup.org/

You could have a look at UrBackup. Its a client/server backup solution. Also you could rsync the local backup server too the remote lokation.

I would also recommend UrBackup. In my experience it's extremely reliable. https://github.com/uroni/urbackup_backend

Veeam gets most of the hype these days, but if you don't need a Mac client, UrBackup is a solid option. Full & incremental file and image backups for one machine or your whole network, scheduling, rolling copies, etc.

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/

- for important files, a separate box where I have borgmatic [1] in deduplication mode installed; this is updated once in a while

Just curious: Do you have any reason to believe that such a data corruption bug is likely in ZFS? It seems like saying that ext4 could have a bug and you should also store stuff on NTFS, just in case (which I think does not make sense..).

[1]: https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic

Not really dumb. I do use them too but with Borgbackup on the top (since they support it natively).

I found Borgmatic ( https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ ) to be the best way to run my backups. It takes care of everything from pruning to verifying the checksum etc... and it integrates with some monitoring (like cronitor).

So Borgmatic + rsync.net is the best combo

For backups I use Borg myself. If you need a GUI, you can use Vorta or Pika. With borgmatic, there is also a wrapper that extends the range of functions of Borg.

Furthermore, Borgmatic is a wrapper for Borg that extends or improves the range of functions.

For those of you not familiar, borgmatic is a very convenient tool which runs as a wrapper around borg.

I recommend Borg and Borgmatic. Automated, easy to setup, capable of notifying you if anything happens, deduplication and compression makes backups smaller, etc.

To add to this, Borg backup can be a little daunting to configure. There is a wrapper script called Borgmatic that distills it down to a single yaml config file. There are also some cloud hosts like BorgBase and rsync.net with native Borg support.