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Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

57 mentions on Hacker News by 45 people: 7 stories, 50 comments · first 2016-03-24 · latest 2026-09-16

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  1. …(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
  2. …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?
  3. So you're aware, your name clashes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
  4. …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.
  5. …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:…
  6. In case you haven't seen it, some attic developers forked and started https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
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    story by rchipman · 2016-03-24 · 1 comment