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I've been using borg now for a couple of years. It has been great.

I previously used duplicity. It would do a full backup once every week or month, resulting in GBs of data being send over the line.

Borg chunks the data and uses deduplication. It result is just one huge backup at the beginning and incremental changes afterwards.

The abstractions used are also much friendlier. I never took the time to retrieve specific point in time backups from duplicity. With Borg one can mount the whole backup repository as a fuse mount, which each different backup being a distinct directory.

rsync.net offers cheap online storage for borg backups.

One caveat, borg is not yet multiprocess.




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