I’m planning to set up proper backups for my server, but I’m not sure which software to use. I’ve looked for solutions with encryption, compressed, incremental backups. These seem to be the best options:

Does anyone have experience with these, and if so, what was your experience?

EDIT 2023-12-28:

It seems most people are using Restic of which about half mention using a wrapper such as resticprofiles, creatic and autorestic.

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  • Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Borg (specifically Borg Matic) has been working very well for me. I run it on my main server and then on my Nas I have a Borg server docker container as the repository location.

    I also have another repository location my on friends Nas. Super easy to setup multiple targets for the same data.

    I will probably also setup a Borg base account for yet another backup.

    What I liked a lot here was how easy it is to make automatic backups, retention policy and multiple backup locations .

    Open source was a requirement so you can never get locked out of your data. Self hosted. Finally the ability to mount the backup as a volume / drive. So if I want a specific file, I mount that snapshot and just copy that one file over.

  • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I really like Kopia. I backup my containers with it, my workstations, and replicate to s3 nightly. It’s great.

  • SeriousBug@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been using Kopia for all my backups for a couple years, both backing up my desktop and containers. It’s been very reliable, and it has nice features like being able to mount a backup.

  • pacjo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For me it’s restic with creatic wrapper, apprise for notifications and some bash / systemd scripts to make it all connected.

    Everything is in a config file, just as god intended.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I started out with borg. Basically had no problems with it. Then i moved to Restic. For the past few years i am using it, i never experienced any issue with it. Can only recommend Restic.

  • Nyfure@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Was using borg, was a bit complicated and limited, now i use kopia.
    Its supposed to support multiple machines into a single repository, so you can deduplicated e.g. synced data too, but i havent tested that yet.

      • Nyfure@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Index of repositories is held locally, so if you use the same repository with multiple machines, they have to rebuild their index every time they switch.
        I also have family PCs i wanted to backup too, but borg doesnt support windows, so only hacky WSL would have worked.
        But the worst might be the speed of borg… idk what it is, but it was incredibly slow when backing up.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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          10 months ago

          if you use the same repository with multiple machines, they have to rebuild their index every time they switch

          I’m a beginner with Borg so sorry in advance if I say something incorrect l. I backup the same files to multiple distinct external HDDs and my solution was to use distinct repos for each one. They have different IDs so the caches are different too. The include/exclude list is redundant but I can live with that.

  • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    IMHO, Duplicacy is better than all of them at all those things - multi-machine, cross-platform, zstd compression, encryption, incrementals, de-duplication.