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Best backup for Linux? (feddit.dk)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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I am using duplicati and thinking of switching to Borg. What do you use and why?

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Kopia has been working great for me as well. It's simple, versatile and reliable. I previously used Duplicati but kept running into jobs failing for no reason, backup configurations missing randomly and simple restores taking hours. It was a hot mess and I'm happy I switched.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I want to love kopia but the command line syntax feels unnatural to me. I don't know why either. For the whole month I test drove it, I had to look up every single time how to do something. Contrast this with restic which is less featureful in some ways but a few days in it felt like I was just using git.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I never used the command line with Kopia besides starting it up in server mode and used the web based GUI to configure, it was pretty simple to get everything setup that way. You may want to give it another try using Kopia in that mode.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    My use case is for headless machines which makes it a no go in that regard unfortunately.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can use the web ui remotely.

    Personally I use it from command line, though, and my only complaint is that it's too easy to start a backup you didn't intend to.. Buut if you're careful about usong the kopia snapshot command then it's fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Oh I thought the webui was only for server mode.

    I just quickly glanced through the manuals of both restic and kopia. I think my trouble with kopia is that its style feels kind of weird. I'm just not able to wrap my head around it well.

    kopia snapshot create /dir is shorter but more confusing than restic -r repo backup /dir

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