I’m planning to set up proper backups for my server, but I’m not sure which software to use. I’ve looked for solutions with encryption, compressed, incremental backups. These seem to be the best options:

Does anyone have experience with these, and if so, what was your experience?

EDIT 2023-12-28:

It seems most people are using Restic of which about half mention using a wrapper such as resticprofiles, creatic and autorestic.

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  • @TurboLagEnglish
    2•6 months ago

    What were the limitations of borg that you ran into?

    • Nyfure
      3•6 months ago

      Index of repositories is held locally, so if you use the same repository with multiple machines, they have to rebuild their index every time they switch.
      I also have family PCs i wanted to backup too, but borg doesnt support windows, so only hacky WSL would have worked.
      But the worst might be the speed of borg… idk what it is, but it was incredibly slow when backing up.

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        1•6 months ago

        if you use the same repository with multiple machines, they have to rebuild their index every time they switch

        I’m a beginner with Borg so sorry in advance if I say something incorrect l. I backup the same files to multiple distinct external HDDs and my solution was to use distinct repos for each one. They have different IDs so the caches are different too. The include/exclude list is redundant but I can live with that.