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Incremental backup software?
juniorrrrr
Member
I have the following case:
Server with 1200GB of storage and 950GB used, and it needs an external backup. Hardware upgrade is not considered, and excessive bandwidth consumption is not permissible.
I remember using R1Soft with incremental backup in the past. Is there any similar software available nowadays?
*** I forgot an important information.
Is there any self-hosted and open-source solution available?
Comments
Maybe Acronis?
Syncovery
Acronis can do this. It is commercial software. Also you can try open source software like https://www.bacula.org/ or https://rdiff-backup.net/
Restic, Borgbackup, Duplicati, Kopia, Bacula, rsync, BareOS, UrBackup.
Acronis is awesome but not open source.
Acronis, rsync, Bacula
+1 for borgbackup
If your server uses ZFS as file system you can sync a ZFS snapshot incrementally to an external host.
For backups I like to keep things simple. For non-Kubernetes environment I usually use Restic. Battle-tested, robust and very easy to use, reliable.
Borgbackup
You may also want to try Carbonite. They have solution for small and business accounts.
Agree, Restic is good. It's easy to use, stable and fast. It does not get enough credit.
I have a Restic REST server setup and simply throw stuff at it whenever I need it to be backed up, works like a charm. Being able to transfer backups over http makes it so easy.
Acronis Cyber Protect , would be great we use it for a lot of our systems and clients
Borgbackup is great to use!
rsync works good for me
For the noob, is incremental backup the same as block level?
Borg/borgbackup is great. Can be used in combination with a Hetzner Storagebox or Borgbase.
rsync
Duplicity is relatively simple to set up.
If you want a bit more advanced, but also greater in features, then you could look into proxmox backup-client + proxmox backup server.
Duplicacy is great as well. And their dedup is just awesome
Shell & cron
🌚
Duplicity + Vultr object storage
scp. I also set up Tailscale on the VPS and Raspberry Pi, and transferred the VPS backup to the HDD on the local RPi.
If you like, we can offer R1Soft Agent licenses for 6 euro per agent. For more than 10 we can offer discounts.
Restic + RCLONE + Any Cloudstorage
proxmox backup server
rsnapshot is lightweight, and opensource