I thought so too for a long while. Until I was trying to restore something (just to test things), and wasn’t able to... it might have been specific to our GPG or an older version or something... but I decided to switch to restic and am much happier now.
Restic has a single binary that takes care of everything. It feels more modern and seems to work really well. Never had any issue restoring from it.
Just one data point. Stick to whatever works for you. But important to test not only your backups, but also restores!
I've been using Duplicati forever. The fact that it's C# is a bit of a pain (some distros don't have recent Mono), but running it in Docker is easy enough. Being able to check the status of backups and restore files from a web UI is a huge plus, so is the ability to run the same app on all platforms.
I've found duplicity to be a little simplistic and brittle. Purging old backups is also difficult, you basically have to make a full backup (i.e. non-incremental) before you can do that, which increases bandwidth and storage cost.
Restic looks great feature-wise, but still feels like the low-level component you'd use to build a backup system, not a backup system in itself. It's also pre-1.0.
Interesting, I will check Restic out, I’ve heard other good things about it. Duplicity is a bit of a pain to set up and Restic’s single binary model is more straightforward (Go is a miracle). Thanks for the recommendation!
GPG is a bit quirky but I do regularly check my backups and restores (if once every few months counts as regular).
Ditto. Moved to rclone after having a bunch of random small issues with Duplicity that on their own weren't major but made me lose faith in something that's going to be largely operating unsupervised except for a monthly check-in.
