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I am using duplicati and thinking of switching to Borg. What do you use and why?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kopia has served me great. I back up to my local Ceph S3 storage and then keep a second clone of that on a raid.

Kopiahas good performance and miltiple hosts can back up tp it concurrently while preserving deduplication -- unlike borgbackup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kopia has been working great for me as well. It's simple, versatile and reliable. I previously used Duplicati but kept running into jobs failing for no reason, backup configurations missing randomly and simple restores taking hours. It was a hot mess and I'm happy I switched.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to love kopia but the command line syntax feels unnatural to me. I don't know why either. For the whole month I test drove it, I had to look up every single time how to do something. Contrast this with restic which is less featureful in some ways but a few days in it felt like I was just using git.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I never used the command line with Kopia besides starting it up in server mode and used the web based GUI to configure, it was pretty simple to get everything setup that way. You may want to give it another try using Kopia in that mode.