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…it so i went with the borg ssh mount. Long story short, borg failed a couple of times due to https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/7672 , i resumed it per documentation and got 2gb of silently corrupted data. There was no way to do…

comment by innocent_name · 2026-09-16 · in Backups Aren't Simple

…[^2]: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android [^3]: https://github.com/restic/restic [^4]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by rafamaddd · 2025-07-20 · in Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts

…to automatically test posixfs was also a motivation to add the permissions code. Links: - docs: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8906/files - code: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8893/files - code:…

comment by ThomasWaldmann · 2025-06-08 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

…serve` [1]. You can then enforce this as part of your `authorized_keys` command, for example. [0] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/3cf8d7cf2f36246ded75... [1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/3cf8d7cf2f36246ded75...

comment by antoniomika · 2025-06-07 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

…The "no-delete" permission disallows deleting objects as well as overwriting existing objects. [0]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8798#issuecomment-29...

comment by bayindirh · 2025-06-07 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

…a server that understands the permission differences. You can read more about this change here: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/8823#issuecomment-...

comment by antoniomika · 2025-06-07 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

borg discussion + wiki page: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/discussions/8694

comment by ThomasWaldmann · 2025-03-22 · in Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Deﬁned Chunking [pdf]

…to have a lot of work to be done). Does anyone know how Borg 1.x and 2 would compare to Kopia? [1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6602

comment by AnonHP · 2023-09-16 · in Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software

Actually, for raw speed, rsync is much faster than any of the tools you mentioned (see e.g., https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/4190 ). I really like a lightweight solution, where I do not even need any tool to restore backups. The…

comment by basnijholt · 2023-05-14 · in Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups

Python source code? Yes, it is on https://github.com/borgbackup/borg (if that was the question). No cloud? Indeed, borg does not integrate cloud functionality. You'll either need a directory or a server with ssh and borg to store your…

comment by ThomasWaldmann · 2022-12-28 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

…(neither by gpg nor by reinventing gpg for borg) * not adding cloud storage backends (like s3) https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/6602

comment by move-on-by · 2022-12-28 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

Not without akward hacks. [0] I backup to a Hetzner storage box and a Raspberry Pi at home. [0] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/1872

comment by nov21b · 2022-12-27 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

…Borg Backup. I had to give up on Duplicati years ago, perhaps they're OK now. But Borg is magic. https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by rroot · 2022-11-03 · in Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online

…I think an error-correcting mechanism should be available also for the less technology-savvy. [0]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225 [1]: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/256

comment by Koffiepoeder · 2022-07-25 · in Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

…the amount of data changed since last backup (or by a couple of kilobytes if nothing has changed). https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2022-06-23 · in 7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps

There's this ticket: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225 I don't see anything of that in the near future of borg, esp. as long as the fundamental concerns there have not been addressed.

comment by ThomasWaldmann · 2022-03-30 · in Restic 0.13.0

…for a non-local installation (backups on/to servers in different locations). See for instance https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/4832

comment by BrandoElFollito · 2022-01-02 · in Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22

rsync.net has a special pricing tier for Borg users that might be worth looking into. https://github.com/borgbackup/borg https://rsync.net/products/attic.html

comment by S04dKHzrKT · 2021-12-12 · in Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful

And yet again: A list of alternatives. attic (python) - https://github.com/jborg/attic borg (c) - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg bupstash (rust) - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash duplicacy (go) -…

comment by sandreas · 2021-11-13 · in Restic – Backups Done Right

And yet again: A list of alternatives. attic (python) - https://github.com/jborg/attic borg (c) - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg bupstash (rust) - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash duplicacy (go) -…

comment by sandreas · 2021-07-26 · in Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption

Lets make a list : attic (python) - https://github.com/jborg/attic borg (c) - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg bupstash (rust) - https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash duplicacy (go) - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy…

comment by sandreas · 2021-01-03 · in Encrypted Backup Shootout

…using rmlint/fdupe and unix tools, but that's a secret. [2] https://git-annex.branchable.com/ [2] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg [3] There's GUI implementations of these

comment by Jiocus · 2020-11-11 · in Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

…kidding yourself about your data, check out some backup solutions. I particularly like Borg Backup: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg And if you do not have network attached storage anywhere there are services that provide it as a…

comment by jchw · 2020-01-09 · in Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

…the choice to pass it up and stick to combinations of ZFS, rsync, and the trusty old tarball. [0] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/commit/75dcf9356334188276...

comment by cookiecaper · 2019-11-26 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

…it (for me). Sadly, it seems like borg has no built-in support for any kind of redundancy [1] [1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225

comment by JackMcMack · 2019-11-26 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg 62% C 35% Python

comment by hyperion2010 · 2019-11-26 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

…interested in looking into borg to replace rsnapshot. https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://github.com/borgbackup/borg https://github.com/borgbackup/borg-import https://github.com/borgbackup/borgweb…

comment by bigbugbag · 2019-01-20 · in Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls

…of Borg is that it has to walk the whole filesystem for backups, rather than picking up changes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/325 This is true of most backup programs.

comment by blattimwind · 2019-01-20 · in I Nearly Lost All of My Data

…anyone is interested in working on this platform, just post at [1]. It's probably very doable. 1: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/936

comment by m3nu · 2019-01-20 · in I Nearly Lost All of My Data

…of Borg is that it has to walk the whole filesystem for backups, rather than picking up changes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/325 According to a more up to date comparison[1] (recommends Arq), Borg is also slow because it…

comment by sooheon · 2019-01-20 · in I Nearly Lost All of My Data

Also, I found borg better than restic since borg also does compression https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by rraghur · 2018-11-23 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

BorgBackup: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg Deduplication, compression, encryption, to local or remote targets.

comment by non-nil · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

Discussed at https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/672

comment by snaky · 2018-09-16 · in Packnback: asymmetrically encrypted backups

…b.com/qt/qtbase/blob/5.11/src/widgets/kernel/qw... is the largest no-nonsense C++ file I've ever seen https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/master/src/borg/arch... ditto for Python Personally files this large become just very annoying…

comment by blattimwind · 2018-08-08 · in µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime

Borg is amazing, except for the lack of public key encryption, which makes it unusable: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/672

comment by oconnore · 2017-08-22 · in CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market

…bar for other backup utiltiies and I certainly think the ecosystem is better because of it. [0] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by 2bluesc · 2017-08-13 · in Retiring Obnam

…upgrade which adds another level of trust. [0]: https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy [1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by _JamesA_ · 2017-07-18 · in A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity

…two years. Would love to see similar tests run against borg. [0] https://github.com/jborg/attic [1] https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by 2bluesc · 2017-07-18 · in A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity

…with python dependencies" required. It looks like they also have packages for other platforms: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases

comment by rkrzr · 2017-07-18 · in A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity

…impressed by borg so far (haven't deployed it in production, only played with it locally though). https://github.com/borgbackup/borg This is a description of the internal design: http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals.html

comment by rdtsc · 2017-06-20 · in Casync – A tool for distributing file system images

…download per amount of data in the backups, which you can vary by adjusting the chunking size. [1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg [2]: https://restic.github.io/ [3]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTBucketGET...…

comment by btschaegg · 2017-06-07 · in Duplicacy: Lock-free deduplication cloud backup tool, with “fair source” license

Here are a some benchmarks across a wide range of CPUs: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/45#issuecomment-22... However, none with SHAEXT; they just weren't there yet. But the Zen numbers should give you a good idea. Note that…

comment by dom0 · 2017-05-18 · in AMD Unveils “EPYC” CPUs Featuring Up to 32 Cores and 64 Threads for the Datacenter

Here is the same but with star and doublestar for handling slashes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/master/src/borg/shel... http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#borg-h... ("Shell-style patterns, selector sh:")

comment by dom0 · 2017-04-24 · in Glob Matching Can Be Simple and Fast Too

…something I do it from the local copy. I never mount the repository in remote locations. ¹ https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by pYQAJ6Zm · 2017-02-21 · in Ask HN: What's your backup setup?

…(compiled to pure, non-vectorized AMD64 assembly), about 230 MB/s / GHz. (Referring to https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/45#issuecomment-22... ), ie. something like 850-1000 MB/s on a desktop SKU. There are implementations that are…

comment by dom0 · 2016-12-09 · in SeaHash: Explained

…they get support for remote object stores like S3, it will be hands down the best backup solution: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/102 . Even though, there is a fuse layer for S3 that may work (haven't tried that yet).

comment by senorsmile · 2016-11-21 · in Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

So you're aware, your name clashes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by proaralyst · 2016-11-01 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (November 2016)

…to experience rather than strong preference) so it's fully reproducible. I push my data with borg ( https://github.com/borgbackup/borg ) to rsync.net ( http://rsync.net/products/attic.html ) for offsite backup.

comment by AdamGibbins · 2016-10-09 · in Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such as Digital Ocean?

…basic features work, but it would really benefit from an active Windows developer. Windows issues: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ai... License: 3-clause BSD. Contribution guidelines:…

comment by dom0 · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)

In case you haven't seen it, some attic developers forked and started https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

comment by sciurus · 2016-06-02 · in Rsnapshot: filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync