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Though anecdotal, the one time I tried to restore my data from a duplicity backup (aside from when I initially started using it), I got a stack trace with an unhandled KeyError. I was never able to find out why the error happened or how to fix it, but thankfully I was just testing my ability to restore.

Anyway, I would recommend against using it - errors like that should be impossible when you're not doing anything exotic.

Can anyone else vouch for this being a stable, long term solution for backing up my home directory from macOS? Every single backup/cloud file storage gives me anxiety that I did something wrong or that there are bugs not discovered by retrieving random archives as a test.

From: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/features.html

> Although you should never have to look at a duplicity archive manually, if the need should arise they can be produced and processed using GnuPG, rdiff, and tar.

I haven't set it up yet, but it's going to be my holiday project this Christmas..

There is also Duplicati https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati

Similarly there’s the annoyingly named duplicati which also works pretty well. I have it set to send snapshots to google drive, encrypted of course.