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

3 points by l1am0 ↗ HN
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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LinuxBender
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/

l1am0
Oh I actually search for a solution for my personal pc :D
LinuxBender
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

invalidtaxonomy
borg backup never failed me. here is a gui for borg: https://vorta.borgbase.com/
l1am0
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.

catacombs
Backblaze might be what you're looking for.

Otherwise, you could use an external hard drive and rsync

l1am0
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