Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

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thangngoc89 · 1h ago

I switched to restic (https://restic.net/) and the backrest webui (https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest) for Windows support. Files are deduplicated across machines with good compression support.

blablabla123 · 1h 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 · 29m ago

I used to work on backup software. I lost count of the number of times this happened to us with our clients too

rollcat · 14m ago

I've been using it for ~10 years at work and at home. Fantastic software.

ElectronBadger · 2h ago

I using it with via Vorta (https://vorta.borgbase.com) frontend. My favorite backup solution so far.

toenail · 2h 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.

creamyhorror · 3h ago

I remember using Borg Backup before eventually switching to Duplicati. It's been a while.

Snild · 3h ago

I currently use borg, and have never heard of Duplicati. What made you switch?

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Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

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