@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you, I’ll have to follow your phlog’s Atom feed. I see you’re using tag URIs, nice. :)

That looks like a good system. Simple and effective. I ask because my current backup system is lacking and I’d like to do something about that. I don’t want to use cloud storage, so I’ll be moving hard drives around. I’m just not sure on what to do on the software side.

Solutions like Restic and Borg have many advantages, but the disadvantage is that your data is confined to that particular tool. I think I’m willing to make that trade to have snapshots, compression, deduplication, etc. I’m just on the fence about which one I should use.

@prologic@twtxt.net, why did you choose Restic? How do you like it so far? If you’ve had to restore from the backup, what was that like?

@mckinley@twtxt.net I liked restic because its portable and written in Go. It supports all the features I want/need, multiple storage backends/locations, snapshots, etc. I can easily verify data integrity as well. I haven’t tried to restore from backups fully (only partially). The tools is just very well written and very easy to automate and work with.