I recently implemented a backup workflow for me. I heavily use restic for desktop backup and for a full system backup of my local server. It works amazingly good. I always have a versioned backup without a lot of redundant data. It is fast, encrypted and compressed.

But I wondered, how do you guys do your backups? What software do you use? How often do you do them and what workflow do you use for it?

  • hallettj@leminal.space
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 hours ago

    My conclusion after researching this a while ago is that the good options are Borg and Restic. Both give you incremental backups with cheap timewise snapshots. They are quite similar to each other, and I don’t know of a compelling reason to pick one over the other.

    • Zenlix@lemm.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 hours ago

      As far as I know, by definition, at least restic is not incremental. It is a mix of full backup and incremental backup.