In response to Linus Tech Tip's recent storage disaster, here's what I do at home.

• BorgBackup

  333 10,559 9.4 Python

  Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  

Take Borg for instance. It is tried and tested, and has been stable for more than a decade. While repository corruption is possible, mostly due to hardware failure, it is almost always possible to restore undismayed parts of the backup.

• borgmatic

  61 1,643 9.4 Python

  Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

  

To schedule all the bells and whistles, borgmatic provides tried and tested scripts to do backups and repository maintenance.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• kopia

  224 6,318 9.6 Go

  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.

  

Now, I said that in 2022 I would probably look at Duplicacy or Kopia, and that is still true. Borg is great at what it does, but it only supports remote backups over SSH, and personally I’ve been backing up over S3 compatible interfaces for a long time (Minio). Besides HTTPS being much faster than SSH, it also supports integrity checking in the backend instead of having to transfer data back.

• Duplicacy

  136 5,018 5.6 Go

  A new generation cloud backup tool

Now, I said that in 2022 I would probably look at Duplicacy or Kopia, and that is still true. Borg is great at what it does, but it only supports remote backups over SSH, and personally I’ve been backing up over S3 compatible interfaces for a long time (Minio). Besides HTTPS being much faster than SSH, it also supports integrity checking in the backend instead of having to transfer data back.

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