duplicity vs Déjà Dup

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.

The program's interface has 4 tabs - overview, storage, folders and schedule. You select where to back up in "storage", what folders to back up and ignore in "folders" and how often to back up in "schedule." Overview displays all these settings and offers a choice of backing up and restoring.

You can connect to both physically connected devices as well as devices that are available over FTP, SSH, as long as Nautilus can connect to them.

For people using Ubuntu, this is already installed.