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I'm using restic on servers, Kopia on pc/mac

by ElDji 4y ago

alexktz 4y ago
Restic is absolutely great. Wrap it in Autorestic and it's even better! https://autorestic.vercel.app/ https://autorestic.vercel.app/
- jacooper 4y ago
  The problem with autorestic is its development is pretty slow. Many PRs are still not merged, and there are very few commits.
- Saris 4y ago
  I've been using Autorestic but it has some issue, it keeps modifying the yml file on its own with an invalid config option, which causes the backups to fail. Not a good thing for something that's supposed to run in the background and keep things backed up.
- fdw 4y ago
  I've had a good experience with [crestic](https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic), even though it seems a lot smaller and simpler than autorestic. But I really like how the same backup can be configured for different backends. Autorestic's seemed more complicated in comparison.
- hjuutilainen 4y ago
  There’s also resticprofile which takes care of scheduling (with launchd on macOS) and maintenance tasks for restic. I especially enjoy that resticprofile can create a prom file for the backup status that I can just scoop up to my monitoring. https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/ https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/
b0afc375b5 4y ago
I use Kopia + Backblaze with linux. No problems so far.
- jacooper 4y ago
  Same question. I set up duplicati for a small server to backup WordPress websites In docker with a script, and it seems to work just fine.
  - jacooper 4y ago
    Oops wrong comment to reply to.
wolfhumble 4y ago
Just wondering: Any reason you don't use Kopia on the servers as well?
XorNot 4y ago
+1 for Restic. What I ended up doing was writing a script which implements a file I called `backupctl` on my home server which specifies a set of directories under the home directories to backup. This wound up being a good solution to the problem of "try and save these files from loss due to annoyance" - i.e. a house fire isn't catastrophic, and "irreplaceable" (previous memories) which I want to head off to Restic. For things like family photos this works really well since if we copy them all over the place across devices, restic will still deduplicate them down to just 1 record when it gets uploaded to Backblaze.

I'm using restic on servers, Kopia on pc/mac

by ElDji 4y ago

I'm using restic on servers, Kopia on pc/mac

Restic is absolutely great. Wrap it in Autorestic and it's even better! https://autorestic.vercel.app/ https://autorestic.vercel.app/

jacooper 4y ago
The problem with autorestic is its development is pretty slow. Many PRs are still not merged, and there are very few commits.
Saris 4y ago
I've been using Autorestic but it has some issue, it keeps modifying the yml file on its own with an invalid config option, which causes the backups to fail. Not a good thing for something that's supposed to run in the background and keep things backed up.
fdw 4y ago
I've had a good experience with [crestic](https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic), even though it seems a lot smaller and simpler than autorestic. But I really like how the same backup can be configured for different backends. Autorestic's seemed more complicated in comparison.
hjuutilainen 4y ago
There’s also resticprofile which takes care of scheduling (with launchd on macOS) and maintenance tasks for restic. I especially enjoy that resticprofile can create a prom file for the backup status that I can just scoop up to my monitoring. https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/ https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/

b0afc375b5 4y ago

I use Kopia + Backblaze with linux. No problems so far.

jacooper 4y ago
Same question. I set up duplicati for a small server to backup WordPress websites In docker with a script, and it seems to work just fine.
- jacooper 4y ago
  Oops wrong comment to reply to.

wolfhumble 4y ago

Just wondering: Any reason you don't use Kopia on the servers as well?

XorNot 4y ago

+1 for Restic. What I ended up doing was writing a script which implements a file I called `backupctl` on my home server which specifies a set of directories under the home directories to backup. This wound up being a good solution to the problem of "try and save these files from loss due to annoyance" - i.e. a house fire isn't catastrophic, and "irreplaceable" (previous memories) which I want to head off to Restic. For things like family photos this works really well since if we copy them all over the place across devices, restic will still deduplicate them down to just 1 record when it gets uploaded to Backblaze.