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Ask HN: What backup software for Linux should I use?

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Hey HN crowd,

I am now for quite some time on Linux and still searching for a good encrypted backup solution.

What are you using and why do you think it is the best solution for you?

Requirements I have:

- Client Side encryption

- Automated

- Easy to restore

- GUI to configure it

- Stored into a cloud storage

I am happy to pay a monthly fee for a good solution, but the client must be open source to ensure a client side encryption.

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I think that you will get a more complete answer from a bigger on-topic audience from SuperUser [1]. Be sure to include how many servers you would scale to, how much data, speed of the network and how many people would be managing the solution. If this is for a professional deployment, then perhaps also ask on ServerFault [2]

[1] - https://superuser.com/

[2] - https://serverfault.com/

Oh I actually search for a solution for my personal pc :D

Then I would ask on SuperUser. If you want something entirely open source and you don't mind some manual steps and this is just for you, then you could simply mount a USB, use cryptsetup to encrypt it and use rsnapshot to copy your files over. Rsnapshot will create deltas of only changed files, which means rolling back to a date is easy and disk usage is minimal (just your initial data-set + change delta)

Your distro likely already has cryptsetup and rsnapshot in its repos.

You asked for a GUI though, so I think your best bet is SuperUser. They will be on top of all the latest open source backup solutions that have a GUI.

[1] - https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot

Backblaze might be what you're looking for.

Otherwise, you could use an external hard drive and rsync

This looks really promising. Are you using it as daily driver?

edit: Backblaze is basically using http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ on Linux. So no solution for Linux users IMO

borg backup never failed me. here is a gui for borg: https://vorta.borgbase.com/

Had borg backup running for some time as CLI solution, but the restore part was just not good enough and it failed silently on me, so I did not backup for a month until I recognized that :/

The Vorta GUI looks really great!

Will definitely check it out again.

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