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What are the best de-duplicating backup cli programs for Linux?
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Best de-duplicating backup cli programs for Linux
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Borg Backup
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restic
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Duplicati
FREE
Windows, macOS, Linux
LGPL-2.1
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Bup
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Attic
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Borg Backup
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Borg Backup
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Borg Backup
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Cons
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Deduplication
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Locks entire repository in exclusive mode
You can't run two simultaneous backups. You can't run a backup when a restore or a mount is running. You can't mount or restore when a backup is running.
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NonchalantPolyhymnia's Experience
Fast and secure backup program.
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Fast
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Need fs mount point to backup to cloud
Can use 3rd party utils to create mount point to S3, iCloud Drive, etc.
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CredibleAchilles's Experience
Been using this for many years, it is very solid.
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Space efficient storage
Deduping, chunking, incremental based on binary instead of filenames/timestamps.
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No GUI
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Open source (BSD)
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Incremental backups
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Easily works with fs mounts
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Reliably resume interrupted backups - no integrity issues
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Handles file renames
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Pruning (versioning)
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Deduplicates files
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Cross platform
Linux Mac OS X FreeBSD OpenBSD and NetBSD (no xattrs/ACLs support or binaries yet) Cygwin (experimental, no binaries yet) Linux Subsystem of Windows 10 (experimental)
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restic
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restic
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restic
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Command-line program
restic runs comfortably as a CLI program, which allows for batch mode processing and integration in scripts or system services.
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No built-in automation
Many backup tools come with some form of built-in scheduling, which is absent from restic.
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CredibleAchilles's Experience
Easy to set up, many backends.
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Deduplication
Uses deduplication of content based on slices of files; if you only change one line, you'll only have to back up the small slices in which they are contained.
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No GUI for configuring and maintaining backups
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Encrypted backups
Easily encrypt your backups using AES256.
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Very fast
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Simple command calls
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Duplicati
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Duplicati
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Duplicati
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Experiences
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Pros
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Cons
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An abundance of storage backends
From USB flash drives to external mechanical hard drives, shared Samba or WebDAV folders over a local network, to SFTP servers or traditional commercial cloud storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive or Backblaze, users can select any combination they like to accomplish their data security and fault tolerance goals.
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Fails silently
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Peter J. Mello's Experience
I'll concede that it's not even close to hassle-free, but it has all the crucial features I need to take advantage of my Backblaze B2 account from my Linux computers for which Backblaze offers no official client. I've successfully restored from Duplicati backups several times without issue and feel good about contributing to the growth of a FLOSS project while keeping my data safe.
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Specs
Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux
License:
LGPL-2.1
Auto update:
Yes
Versioning:
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Free
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Fails to backup if any folder is missing
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Works with standard protocols and many services
FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive & S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and many others.
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Open Source
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Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, macOS)
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Simple interface
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Reliable outcome reporting
The local instance of the application uses a tray icon on all three platforms to inform the user of new information about configured backups, and for headless installations or managed systems a built-in e-mail generator is offered along with an XMPP client/bot. For more interactive tasks the Web UI can be port-forwarded to the public internet, allowing for real-time updates and management of tasks from anywhere in the world.
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Under very active development by a small, dedicated team
Duplicati 2 (the current version) has been distributed since August 2014 as a beta release and continues to receive feature updates and bug fixes averaging once every six weeks with updates on the canary channel often appearing twice monthly. While glitches and regressions aren't uncommon, the size of the user base lends itself to quickly helping newcomers troubleshoot and get comfortable.
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Bup
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No encryption
Bup does not currently implement any form of encryption to protect your data at rest. If you want to store your backups on a third-party or shared storage location (e.g. coud storage, or a friend's server) you would need to provide your own encryption or risk exposing your data.
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Huge files can be backed up incrementally
Bup can split large files into chunks and that allows bup to back up files incrementally.
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No GUI
Only available as a command line tool.
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Attic
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Attic
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Attic
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Fast
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Not a lot of community support
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Good deduplication
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Data corrupts on large repositories
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Small backups
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Repository format is not documented
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Backups can be mounted as filesystems
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