Bup: Efficient backup system based on the Git packfile format

It is my understanding that the contest for "best backup tool" has a current winner, and for now that winner is attic/borg.[1]

This is important to me/us because we[2] invested a fair amount of time and effort to enable native attic and borg support on our platform. You can just point those tools right at us.

As always, big "HN Readers" discount.

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[2] rsync.net

> bup currently has no way to prune old backups.

As a Mac (and therefore Time Machine) user in the process of switching to Linux, this seems to be a big downside.

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> Until we fix this, one possible workaround is to just start a new BUP_DIR occasionally, i.e. bup-2013-10, bup-2013-11...

And the workaround mostly defeats the purpose of incremental backups.

This has been posted many, many times.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bup&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...