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Add to SafariWhen comparing SpiderOak vs restic, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud backup services for Linux?” SpiderOak is ranked 1st while restic is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Zero knowledge
Data is locally encrypted before uploading to Spideroak. They cannot recover your data even if they wanted to since it is stored in encrypted state on their servers.
Pro Unintrusive
Pro Command-line program
restic runs comfortably as a CLI program, which allows for batch mode processing and integration in scripts or system services.
Pro 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.
Pro Encrypted backups
Easily encrypt your backups using AES256.
Pro Very fast
Pro Simple command calls
Cons
Con No built-in automation
Many backup tools come with some form of built-in scheduling, which is absent from restic.
Con No GUI for configuring and maintaining backups
