How to set up like this with features -
- Forever full backups/DeDuplication
- Option Delete changes older than x.
- How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data,
- Save a “Ghost” for other data (internet data not personal) which is only Filename, Metadata and Folder-Structure.
- “File Change Tracker” to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed.
- “File History” where I see previous version of files.
- Config from inside folders for disks (not OS) with e.g.
.backupconfigfile containing e.g.backup=1, or haveselect file backuped/not-backed-up.
To Backup
- External and Internal Disk (files) and OSes to backup,
- Backup select data from Disks,
- all separately backup-ed to the same backup disk, .
| Software | FOSS | Enterprise | OS | Encrypted | GUI | MultiMachine | Dedup | Snapshots | Scalable | Schedule | Image | Lesson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restic Frontends - Resticprofile, 2 , Backrest (garethgeorge), restic-browser) [zerobyte (nicotsx)-Video, Automation, UI, schedule, manage, Monitor] | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | (Seems like is best it’s Old and trusted) | ||||||
| urbackup (seems Powerful, some people love it some say it’s not reliable) [Backup/Imaging] | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | Server/Client, ChangeBlockTracker , Lesson , https://christitus.com/urbackup/ | ||||||||
| Duplicati | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | Data issues | ||||||||
| Freefilesync.org | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||||||||||
| Minarca | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||||||||||
| plakar.io | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||||||||||
| syncBKUP (Jim-JMCD) | 🟢 | |||||||||||
| Bacula | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | Lesson | ||
| Bareos (Bacula Fork) | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | |||||||
| Kopia | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||||||||
| vykar | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | 🟢 | Rust, YAML config, Support for S3, Custom REST, SFTP Storage. Inspired by BorgBackup, Borgmatic, Restic, Rustic. | ||||||
| Pika | 🟢 | ❌Windows | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo | |||||||||
| Borg (borgbackupserver) | 🟢 | ⚠️Windows)(cygwin/WSL) ⚠️macOS | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||||||||
| Duplicacy github | source-available | 🟢 | 🟢 | |||||||||
| BackInTime (rsync frontent for backups) | ❌Windows | |||||||||||
| blinkdisk | 🟢 | 🟢 | ||||||||||
| Veeam (Free) | 🟢 | ⚠️macOS | 🟢 | |||||||||
| Backblaze | - | - | ||||||||||
| zfs_autobackup | 🟢 | |||||||||||
| eXdupe (rrrlasse) | 🟢 | |||||||||||
| zpaqfranz (fcorbelli) | 🟢 | |||||||||||
| VaultSync (ATAC-Helicopter) | 🟢 | |||||||||||
| https://bvckup2.com/ | Maybe Not | |||||||||||
| https://www.nakivo.com/ | Free |
Dead but FOSS
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List/_of/_backup/_software
Freemium
| Software | OS |
|---|---|
| uranium | Windows |
| SyncBack Free | Windows |
Backup and Imaging
| Software | Foss |
|---|---|
| ShadowMaker Free | ❌ |
| Paragon Backup | ❌ |
| MSP360 | ❌ |
| Macrium Free | ❌ |
| Acronis Free | ❌ |
Disk Imaging
| Software | Foss | Imaging | Backup | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows | ❌ | |||
| Rescuezilla (clonezilla) | 🟢 | 🟢 |
Sync Software
| Foss | OS | |
|---|---|---|
| Rsync https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync | 🟢 | All |
| RClone - ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCIi-NxJEo ) | 🟢 | All |
| ByteSync | 🟢 | All |
| FreeFileSync | 🟢 | All |
| SyncBackFree | Windows | |
| Syncthing | 🟢 | All |
Cloud
https://www.reddit.com/r/Backup/wiki/index/cloud/_backup/_services/backblaze/
Info
Incremental backup method, where I only make full backups once ,
Question - as i understand from “grandfather,father,son” method - that Full backups are still necessary when using snapshots/incremental backups, why is that ?
“deduplication” is of 2 types
Data/Block de-duplication - tech to reduce amount storage required. This breaks files upon into chunks and creates a DB. Data de-duplication is influenced heavily by data type. Data de-duplication is a waste of time with compressed multimedia and encrypted data. Data de-duplication is often incorporated into backup products and can exist in independently, its built into some file system types (Windows server and some Linux).
File deduplication - Removing identical files. by comparing the whole file. Homelabers and home users are more worried about this than commercial environments. In commercial environments users and projects are usually allocated a quota storage space and its up to them how they want to manage it.
Incrementals Forever and Synthetic Full Backup - incremental may/not have de-duplication. They can also use Change Block Tracking (CBT) to save a lot of backup time.
“Forever Full” are simply a variation on synthetic full backups with data deduplication and CBT being optional.
Data deduplication occurs when you:
- Have multiple copies of the same data across multiple machines e.g. the operating system files of the computers you are backing up.
- Data that has not changed since you last successive backup. This includes files that have partially changed, only new unique data is added to the dedupe database/repository. Old Post about methodology - https://lemmy.ml/post/44433232
Wait, Rescuezilla(the Clonezilla GUI) doesn’t support encryption?
Clonezilla has encryption. Are we positive that Rescuezilla doesn’t have encryption?
Also Rescuezilla does have a GUI. It’s literally the GUI for the TUI based Clonezilla.
I’m a fan of restic. I’m using it for workstations and homelab servers. I have two complaints. Scheduling backups isn’t integrated into the tool (but other wrapper tools like resticprofile do a great job of cooking the gap. And restoring from backup is more of a headache than I’d like.
For restic:
- Every backup is incremental after the first or rather restic makes no distinction because it chunks and dedups the data on the way in so if it’s already in the repo it doesn’t get stored twice.
- Restic has customisable ‘forget’ cmd that can do whatever you want
- Restic has filtering flags, you can use a gitignore style file also. Many people use a wrapper though like autorestic.
- The ghost files are interesting. Restic has nothing special for this. A script that mirrored those files and wrote them all as 0 bytes which restic could then backup would be possible, this would work same for any backup tool.
- You get that summary after every restic backup. You can also compare snapshots and mount them all to run your own analysis if you want.
- Again if you mount a restic backup you have access to every file and snapshot taken in the repo. You could compare or diff them using usual tools.
- There is a ‘exclude-if-present’ option where you can say if a file with the name of your choosing is present do not backup that dir etc
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Not used bacula myself, couldn’t say.
You might also want to keep an eye on vykar which is promising all the best bits from restic/borg:
I’ve been using Duplicacy. I pay for the GUI because I still struggle with CLI-only tools.
Interested to see what others suggest though.
It’s not in your list but veeam has a free version and I really like it.
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Nope.