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Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by qaz to c/selfhosted

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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.

Borg	Restic	Kopia
3	7	5

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use restic with a local external drive that is then synced to backblaze b2 via rclone.

[–] qaz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why did you choose this option instead of directly syncing it with restic’s rclone backend?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An external hard drive is a lot faster than my internet connection and helps fulfill 3-2-1 requirements.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does it though? I had a similar setup in the past, but I did not feel good with it. If your first backup corrupts that corruption is then synced to your remote location. Since then I have two separate backup runs for local and remote. But restic as well with resticprofile. Remote is a SFTP server. For restic I am using the rclone backend for SFTP since I had some connection issues with the internal SFTP backend (on connection resets it would just abort and not try to reconnect, but I think it got improved since then)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only do automated copy to B2 from the local archive, no automated sync, which as far as I understand should be non-destructive with versioning enabled.

If I need to prune, etc. I run will manually sync and then immediately restic check --read-data from a fast VPS to verify B2 version afterwards.

[–] qaz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So no reliability issues with the rclone backend then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not actually used it. I started off doing local backups, B2 was an add-on way later down the road.