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Desktop Backup Client for Borg Backup

17 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2018-11-08 · latest 2024-09-30

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  1. …+ Restic and I am happy + GUI for Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest + GUI for Borg https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by AdaX · 2024-09-30
  2. …+ Restic and I am happy + GUI for Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest + GUI for Borg https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by AdaX · 2024-07-23 · in Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
  3. Actually yes! It could even be paid in the context of this year's Google Summer of Code: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta Or if you join as mentor, you will be supporting the Python Foundation. If interested, just email the address in my…
    comment by m3nu · 2024-03-22 · in Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects
  4. …Google Summer of Code projects for this year. You'll get paid and can pick any task in this field: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code...
    comment by m3nu · 2023-02-06 · in Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science
  5. There's Vorta: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta which I quite like.
    comment by non-nil · 2022-12-27 · in BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
  6. …a completely incompressible file, it will still be extremely slow at higher compression levels: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/issues/485#issuecomment-88...
    comment by phiresky · 2022-08-01 · in Show HN: Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression
  7. There are at least two GUI's for borgbackup: * Vorta ( https://github.com/borgbase/vorta ) * Pika Backup for Gnome ( https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.World.PikaBackup/ ) Vorta is multiplatform and more reliable by my experience.
    comment by lsde · 2022-07-12 · in Ask HN: Developer Workstation Backups
  8. At Vorta ( https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/ ) we're also happy users of the PyQt + PyInstaller stack. Not really needed for Linux, but great for macOS. It's even possible to use Sparkle via PyObjc for automatic updates. Be sure to build…
    comment by m3nu · 2022-03-27 · in Python and Qt simplified
  9. I've always liked the vorta project ( https://github.com/borgbase/vorta )
    comment by bimbashrestha · 2022-03-06 · in Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze
  10. > Now I have been using Vorta (UI for Borg) https://github.com/borgbase/vorta for a long time and everything is fine. Same. I really like it. Also sending my backups to https://borgbase.com which was relatively painless to setup.
    comment by hanklazard · 2021-08-30 · in I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
  11. …times. The lesson I learned was - do not use TimeMachine. Now I have been using Vorta (UI for Borg) https://github.com/borgbase/vorta for a long time and everything is fine.
    comment by Jnr · 2021-08-30 · in I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
  12. …using it via the Vorta GUI client [1]. Zero issues for me unlike Duplicati and Duplicacy. [1] https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by fragileone · 2021-07-26 · in Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
  13. …Then learn new things on the way and expand where it makes sense. 1: https://www.borgbase.com/ 2: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by m3nu · 2019-04-19 · in Ask HN: You have 1 year and enough money to live. What would you build?
  14. …https://github.com/borgbackup/borg-import https://github.com/borgbackup/borgweb https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by bigbugbag · 2019-01-20 · in Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls
  15. …backup tools. We just started translating into different languages. All input and PRs are welcome. https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/ (I'm the original author, but Thomas, the current Borg maintainer is also very active.)
    comment by m3nu · 2019-01-20 · in I Nearly Lost All of My Data
  16. …PyQt doesn't seem to get much love any more. Still worked well for my first bigger Qt project: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/ (an open source GUI for Borg backup for macOS and Linux) Also: Anyone noticed that the tab background…
    comment by m3nu · 2018-12-06 · in Qt 5.12 LTS Released
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    Show HN: Vorta – A Boring Open Source GUI for BorgBackup (Attic)
    story by m3nu · 2018-11-08 · 0 comments