What are the advantages of using Borg instead of Duplicity?
I’ve tried to roll out Borg a few times over the years and always hit a roadblock for one reason or another. Perhaps it was the lack of any front end at all and Borg just chilling in the background, but the documentation was never really clear on what the next steps were.
I’ve been testing out restric and kopia for backups. Anyone with experience with these know the pros and cons vs. Borg?
Someone on github has a decent comparison of a bunch of different backup solutions. Afaik Kopia generally uses more memory but is the faster, and restic is pretty fast and doesn’t use as much RAM as kopia (for awhile people recommended against restic as it lacked compression, but they added it in 0.14 last year).
https://github.com/deajan/backup-bench#in-depth-comparison-of-backup-solutions
I personally prefer kopia (has a gui to help configure it), but restic is also good. I’m not a fan of Borg because you can’t backup directly to object storage (eg. Backblaze B2/Amazon S3/Wasabi/etc), you have to backup to a local or mounted drive, then upload the backup.
I’m also waiting on https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic to get better windows support, as it should use less memory than restic while being as fast, or maybe even faster.
I’m not a fan of Borg because you can’t backup directly to object storage (eg. Backblaze B2/Amazon S3/Wasabi/etc), you have to backup to a local or mounted drive, then upload the backup.
Which in fact is a good thing, because it’s better to have a local copy and an offsite one. rclone copies it for you without issues.
I had good experience with BorgBackup and restic. However, I’ve settled with restic since it had the right back ends for me that Borg did not have and I rather like it’s just one static binary instead of Python+C.
As far as I can see, BorgBackup has a bus factor of one while restic has two to three active contributers.
Other than that, they are quite comparable, I think.
All the more knowledgeable people here debating different modern backup solutions, and I’m up here using
tarup until yesterday, all happy because borg is a step up from that 😃I was just comparing borg and restic yesterday (still haven’t made up my mind) so your post comes at a great time for me :)
I think in the end I’ll give rustic a chance - it’s supposed to be compatible with restic but written in rust. Much smaller project atm though.Just for anyone that wants to try Borg but wants a good ui, borgbase made “vorta” that is a great ui. Plus Borg has 2.0 around the corner.
