X-Ryl669/Frost

borgbackup missing on your comparison list

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ThomasWaldmann commented

Hi,

borgbackup developer here (borg is a fork of attic, with lots of fixes and some new features).

Just found your stuff, looks like we share some common goals / opinions about backup software, so it might be interesting to add borgbackup to your comparison list of backup tools.

If you want to have a look, easiest way is to use our binary build for testing.

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases

Cheers, Thomas

ThomasWaldmann commented

Ah, and restic also (you found it already and I found your project via that). :)

X-Ryl669 commented

Do you agree with this feature list ?

  1. Borg has deduplication based on rolling checksum so it should be also optimal for insert/delete
  2. It then hash & compress (LZ4/Zlib/LZMA) the chunks
  3. It then encrypt them
  4. It has a FUSE tool to mount the archive as a filesystem
  5. It can not delete previous iteration of backup
  6. If install on a remote server, it does a kind of "rsync" (please be more descriptive) to avoid long transfer of the backup archive increment
  7. Python based.
ThomasWaldmann commented

1, 2 ok
3 encrypt-then-mac
4,7 ok
5 no, you can delete any archive you like
6 it transfers the chunks it has not yet in the repository

sergeevabc commented

Windows user sees no binary, sad.

ThomasWaldmann commented

@sergeevabc there is no native windows support yet, but experimental support for cygwin and WSL.