I’ve been looking at this project occasionally for more than four years. The development of version 2.0 started sometime in April 2022 (IIRC) and there’s still no release candidate yet. I’m guessing that it’ll be finished in a year from now.
What are the current recommendations here to do periodic backups of a NAS with lower (not lowest) costs for about 1 TB of data (mostly personal photos and videos), ease of use and robustness that one can depend on (I know this sounds like a “pick two” situation)? I also want the backup to be completely private.
I also use restic and do backups to append-only rest-servers in multiple locations.
I also back up multiple hosts to the same repository, which actually results in insane storage space savings. One thing I'm missing though is being able to specify multiple repositories for one snapshot such that I have consistency across the multiple backup locations. For now the snapshots just have different ids.
sunaookami · 34m ago
Love borg, use it to backup all my servers and laptop to a Hetzner Storage Box. Always impressed with the deduplication stats!
stevekemp · 1m ago
Same story here, using Borg with a Hetzner storage box to give me offsite backups.
Cheap, reliable, and almost trouble-free.
blablabla123 · 2h ago
I once met the Borg author at a conference, pretty chill guy. He said that when people file bugs because of data corruption, it's because his tool found the underlying disk to be broken. Sounds quite reliable although I'm mostly fine with tar...
vrighter · 1h ago
I used to work on backup software. I lost count of the number of times this happened to us with our clients too
kachapopopow · 1h ago
Restic is far better both in terms of usability and packaging (borgmatic pretty much is a requirement for usability). Have used both extensively, you can argue that borg can just be scripted instead and is a lot more versitile, but I had a much better experience with restic in terms of setup and forget. I am not scared that restic will break, with borg I did.
Also not sure why this was posted, did a new version release or something?
kmarc · 16m ago
> you can argue that borg can just be scripted
And that's what I did myself. Organically it grew to ~200 lines, but it sits in the background (created a systemd unit for it, too) and does its job. I also use rclone to store the encrypted backups in an AWS S3 bucket
I so much forget about it that sometimes I have to remind myself to test it out if it still works (it does).
Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size
All archives: 2.20 TB 1.49 TB 52.97 GB
mekster · 54m ago
How is the performance for both?
Last time I used restic a few years ago, it choked on not so large data set with high memory usage. I read Borg doesn't choke like that.
toenail · 4h ago
Last time I checked the deduplication only works per host when backups are encrypted, which makes sense. Anyway, borg is one of the three backup systems I use, it's alright.
I've been using it for ~10 years at work and at home. Fantastic software.
creamyhorror · 4h ago
I remember using Borg Backup before eventually switching to Duplicati. It's been a while.
Snild · 4h ago
I currently use borg, and have never heard of Duplicati. What made you switch?
racked · 44m ago
I've had an awful experience with Duplicati. Unstable, incomplete, hell to install natively on Linux. This was 5 years ago and development in Duplicati seemed slow back then. Not sure how the situation is now.
What are the current recommendations here to do periodic backups of a NAS with lower (not lowest) costs for about 1 TB of data (mostly personal photos and videos), ease of use and robustness that one can depend on (I know this sounds like a “pick two” situation)? I also want the backup to be completely private.
I also back up multiple hosts to the same repository, which actually results in insane storage space savings. One thing I'm missing though is being able to specify multiple repositories for one snapshot such that I have consistency across the multiple backup locations. For now the snapshots just have different ids.
Cheap, reliable, and almost trouble-free.
Also not sure why this was posted, did a new version release or something?
And that's what I did myself. Organically it grew to ~200 lines, but it sits in the background (created a systemd unit for it, too) and does its job. I also use rclone to store the encrypted backups in an AWS S3 bucket
I so much forget about it that sometimes I have to remind myself to test it out if it still works (it does).
Last time I used restic a few years ago, it choked on not so large data set with high memory usage. I read Borg doesn't choke like that.