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I am using duplicati and thinking of switching to Borg. What do you use and why?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What problem are you trying to solve? Please think about that, and about your backup strategy, before you decide on any specific tools.

For example, here are several scenarios that I guard against in my backup strategy:

Accidentally delete a file, I want to recover it quickly (snapshots);
Entire drive goes kablooie, I want my system to continue running without downtime (RAID)
User data drive goes kablooie, I want to recover (many many options)
Root drive goes kablooie, I want to recover (baremetal recovery tools)
House burns down or computer is damaged/stolen (offsite backups)