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What is your favorite backup tool and why?
Every year I review my backup strategy, including tools. I have been using Restic lately, and I am wondering if I should keep using it or switch to something else. I am testing Borg again (I used to use it before).
What do you use/prefer and why?
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Rclone + 1Fichier storage on every machine
i'm using kopia - kopiaui - rclone
I like pv
(Actual answer: restic for minimal systems, BackupPC because it supports the operating systems I use without too much messing with configs)
Borg on laptop, rclone on servers folder sync pro on Android, file browser professional on iPhone. Backups replicate to another server via rclone. On the servers lurks encrypted partitions, manually mounted. All works via Tailscale.
Rclone
Restic + ZFS snapshot
you guys take backups?
Yeah, don't worry, we've got a backup of your data.
kopia is great
rclone and backblaze b2. $5/tb with automatic versioning. I keep a copy of replaced/deleted files for 14 days. Use a cron job to schedule sync during idle hours.
Perhaps it has improved since last time I have used it but it corrupted the repository three times for me, last time a year or so ago, so I stopped using it.
I am using it on over 100 hosts some of them have rclone for onedrive support. I never had problems with the native s3 connection, I only had a few problems with rclone but it's my fault because I played around with cache levels and other settings too much and onedrive over rclone is not very stable for backup purposes when kopia has hundreds of thousands files in repo.
I'm using Aomei Backupper Pro
I am using Restic, but happy to discover more.
I see Duplicati, Kopia is a nice option tho, I haven't tried yet.
I use backup button. Hard to miss
The almighty borg.
Restic. Works well and I don't think I would use another one unless I encounter something stupid in the software itself.
borg backup. It deduplicates, so only changed data is stored, but you can go back to a point in time. Similar to snapshots for zfs or btrfs, but for backups.
I keep some backups on a local external hard drive, and some remote on a storage server.
cron + rclone, ease of use and automatic update site-to-site and also to/from my own homelab
restic/borg - preferring restic now, since it allows multiple keys, and for me has been more robust when used in backup scripts.
luks2+syncthing - a block file encrypted with LUKS2 and mounted. Syncing data to it using syncthing.
For some, manually creating archives using 7zip with zstd compression and aes encryption. The backup file and a Readme.txt file with details including a password hint are then written to a dvd and/or uploaded somewhere.
I use PikaBackup its built on top of BorgBackup.
Why? I
Gnome DE and it is made for Gnome 
right now im using borg because running rclone for servers that 100000 km away from each other is a nightmare (it ran for 2 hours for 50gb backup while borg only 5-10 mins)
Mainly restic. I've used a lot of different backups but restic just keeps growing on me. It never fails, never had any corruption, performance is good and it's easy to automate and script. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, without fuzz.
Also, since I'm a Certified Acronis Engineer, if you want to go with a commercial solution I feel obligated to mention Acronis.
BackupPC - versatile, multi-OS support (windows, linux, BSD), GUI, very stable, dedup, compression.
MirrorFolder
I really like borg backup. Using it for multiple services atm
Today I am trying Duplicacy again. I used it for a bit a couple of years ago and I liked it initially, but ran into an issue with a restore at the time. I love that it deduplicates more than other tools by allowing multiple machines to backup to the same storage even concurrently, but I don't like how it manages the filters to define what should be included in or excluded from the backup. Restic is so much more straightforward.
Restic here. Possibly not the best solution for production, but it serves for personal stuff. Duplicati never felt right to me.
Dietpi-backup on debian, no brain needed