While backups are more of a security than privacy topic, i suggest to add the topic of backups to the knowledge base as well as recommendations for backup tools. My reasoning for this suggestion is: People who are new often don’t differentiate between privacy and security and subsequently come h…

I also think it’s important because many of the more private options of things people want to do require some degree of self-hosting. If folks choose that option, they should know that backups are important to maintain the same level of confidence in the persistence of their data as they had on main…

We want to add an article about this: Add a knowledgebase article for backups opened 05:28PM - 09 Sep 22 UTC (UTC) closed 10:08AM - 24 Oct 23 UTC (UTC) [image] matchb…

I used to use Duplicati, but had issue with backing up to Nextcloud server (webdav). It worked great for local (network) backup though. So I switched to Kopia, and it is great piece of software. [image] Kopia Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software for Windows, Mac, and Linux …

From doing some quick research, the best three options seem to be Borg, Restic and Kopia.

[image] Nour: From doing some quick research, the best three options seem to be Borg, Restic and Kopia Could you elaborate on why?

The conclusion I came to is: Borg is the most mature option (written in Python). As a result, it has a lot of different tools, applications and integrations (both CLI and a GUI such as Vorta). It’s slower than other backup programs but it does the job really well and applies a lot of compression. T…

Borg also has a great FOSS GUI app called Vorta . I’d recommend against Duplicati, as it’s performance for restore operations and browsing backed up files is very poor, as myself and others have noticed.

Windows user minority here. I was using Macrium Reflect to backup up my system disk, it’s fast, easy and you can setup a win boot usbkey to restore backups in case of system failing. Now, the free version is being retired and I’m looking for a solid alternative, do you have any advice?

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I’ve always used the built-in Windows File History and Windows Backup tools personally.

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