BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver

We[1] built borg into our environment[2] as soon as it was stable, release software. In the years since, it has (ironically) supplanted use of rsync as the de facto standard that our users back up to us with. As one of our users have said[2], borg is "the holy grail" of backups as it does everything rsync always did, and produces remotely encrypted backups that the provider has zero insight into. It also does not have the inefficiencies that the…

After years of looking at it, I've been using borg for almost a year now, and I've already replaced rsnapshot with it pretty much everywhere. I'm very happy with the deduplication feature (that's my main motivation for switching), but the performance and ease of use are very appreciable too. Actually, performance might be as much as a game changer for me as deduplication (though a less expected one), as I find myself doing and automating backups way more often than…

I switched to restic (https://restic.net/) and the backrest webui (https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest) for Windows support. Files are deduplicated across machines with good compression support.