duplicity vs CrashPlan

Data is encrypted locally before being sent, and kept encrypted by a key that is never stored on the remote machine. So you might even store your data on a public space, people would still need your key or brute force it.

Duplicity uses the rsync algorithm so only the changed parts of files are sent to the archive when doing an incremental backup. For instance, if a long log file increases by just a few lines of text, a small diff will be sent to and saved in the archive. Other backup programs may save a complete copy of the file.

You can retrieve older versions or files you recently deleted locally even after having updated your backup.

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Duplicity does not make many demands on its archive server. As long as files can be saved to, read from, listed, and deleted from a location, that location can be used as a duplicity backend. Besides increasing choice for the user, it can make a server more secure, as clients only require minimal access.

Docker allows to run programs on any Linux without having to really install them, and allows to manage versions so it runs exactly the same on different machines.

You set it up once and from then it runs in the background whenever you are not using your computers (or at specified times).

You can set up different files/folders to back up to specific places.

CrashPlan updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.

The $5/mo individual plan and the $12.50/mo family plan gets you unlimited cloud storage.

Custom 448 bit user-provided encryption key can be used to encrypt the backed up data in the cloud.

They will send you an external hard drive to your house.

CrashPlan saves all previous versions of a file.