Re: lazy old guy asks question
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > There are backup suites
> > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups
> > > without needing to store duplicate copies of the unchanged files.
> > >
> >
> > Care to list some of those? I need to get some kind of a backup process going here...
>
> I've never used any of them personally, but a quick web search
> came up with this thread
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/125k6i9/suggestions_for_incremental_backup_software/>
> which lists borg, restic, duplicati, rsnapshot, and a few others.
This list hit the "incremental" property but not the "rsync" property:
Of the above borg and restic definitely do not use rsync, I don't know
about duplicati but it probably doesn't. rsnapshot does directly use
rsync.
I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial
amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other
rsync-based backup system in 2025. "Non-trivial" is still a pretty large
amount though and rsnapshot does have the extremely desirable feature of
being very very simple, so could still be a solid choice.
borg and restic are actively developed and are IMHO good choices for most
people in 2025.
Thanks,
Andy
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