This smells like an advert. Over the last year I've spent less money on energy by being on Octopus Tracker (which requires a smart meter) over any fixed tariff.
If this is true does this mean we don't need fingerprint scanning hardware any more, but we can just use a microphone and software to unlock a device when the user runs their finger over any convenient surface?
I used this many, many years ago but switched to Borg[0] about five years ago. Duplicity required full backups with incremental deltas, which meant my backups ended up taking too long and using too much disk space. Borg lets you prune older backups at will, because of chunk tracking and deduplication there is no such thing as an incremental backup.
I did the same. I had some weird path issues with Duplicity.
Borg is now my holy backup grail. Wish I could backup incrementally to AWS glacier storage but that just me sounding like an ungrateful begger. I'm incredibly grateful and happy with Borg!
Agree completely... used duplicity many years ago, but switched to Borg and never looked back. Currently doing borg-backups of quite a lot of systems, many every 6 hours, and some, like my main shell-host every 2 hours.
It's quick, tiny and easy... and restores are the easiest, just mount the backup, browse the snapshot, and copy files where needed.
AFAIK, the only difference is that Restic doesn't require Restic installed on the remote server, so you can efficiently backup to things like S3 or FTP. Other than that, both are fantastic.
Technically Borg doesn't require it either, you can backup to a local directory and then use `rclone` to upload the repo wherever.
Not practical for huge backups but it works for me as I'm backing up my machines configuration and code directories only. ~60MB, and that includes a lot of code and some data (SQL, JSON et. al.)
Pretty sure rclone uploads just fine without server dependencies, yeah. I never installed anything special on my home NAS and it happily accepts uploads with rclone.
That I can't really speak of. I know it does not reupload the same files at least (uses timestamps) but never really checked about only uploading file diffs.
Nothing offhand, but basically it can't know what's on the server without reading it all, and if it can't do that locally, it'll have to do it remotely. At that point, might as well re-upload the whole thing.
Its front page hints at this, but there must be details somewhere.
I think you’re misunderstanding something. There’s no need, and even no possibility, to have “rclone support” on the server, and also no need to “read it all”. rclone uses the features of whatever storage backend you’re using; if you back up to S3, it uses the content hashes, tags, and timestamps that it gets from bucket List requests, which is the same way that Restic works.
Borg does have the option to run both a client-side and a server-side process if you’re backing up to a remote server over SSH, but it’s entirely optional.
Not to make this an endless thread, but I have been wondering about what's the most rsync-friendly backup on-disk layout. I have found Borg to have less files and directories which I would naively think translates to less checks (and the files are not huge, too). I have tried Kopia and Bupstash as well but they both produce a lot of files and directories, much more than Borg. So I think Borg wins at this but I haven't checked Restic and the various Duplic[ati|icity|whatever-else] programs in a while (last I did at least a year ago).
I think the advantage of restic is that you don't need to rsync afterwards, it handles all that for you. Combined with its FUSE backup decryption (it mounts the remote backup as a local filesystem you can restore files from), it's very set-and-forget.
My problem with Restic was that it did not recognize sub-second timestamps of files. I made test scripts that tested it (and were creating files and directories in a hypothetical backup source, and were also changing the files) but then Restic insisted nothing was changed because the changes were happening too fast.
I modified the scripts to do `sleep 1` between each change but it left a sour taste and I never gave Restic a fair chance. I see a good amount of praise in this thread, I'll definitely revisit it when I get a little free time and energy.
Because yeah, it's not expected you'll make a second backup snapshots <1s after the first one. :D
I tried Restic again but, its repo size is 2x of that of Borg which allows you to fine-tune compression, and Restic doesn't.
So I'll keep an eye on Rustic instead (it is much faster on some hot paths + allows you to specify base path of the backup; long story but I need that feature a lot because I also do copies of my stuff to network disks and when you backup from there you want to rewrite the path inside the backup snapshot).
Rustic compresses equivalently to Borg which is not a surprise because both use zstd on the same compression level.
I have an overnight cron that flattens my duplicity backups from many incremental backups made over the course of one day to a single full backup file, that becomes the new backup. then subsequent backups over the course of the day do incremental on that file. So I always have full backups for each individual day with only a dozen or so incremental backups tacked onto it.
Same for me. Also, on MacOs duplicity was consuming much more CPU than Borg and was causing my fan to spin loudly. Eventually I moved to timemachine, but I still consider Borg a very good option.
SU was always one of the many aggregators in the addth.is toolbar, alongside places like Reddit. They do both serve the same function of making the Internet more discoverable - noting that early Reddit didn't have comments.
I love it when kids shows do things like this. The BBC show Hey Duggee has an episode called The River Badge which is a homage to Apocalypse Now, recreating a number of similar scenes and pieces of dialogue. Other episodes have references to other movies that kids won't know but that are great fun for adults when they notice.
> I wonder why they can't reject the flight plan for an aircraft that's already in the air?
You need to know everything that may be in the air - if you skip the details of a flight that may be in the air, you risk routing another flight through the same space and the possibility of collision? So if you can't do that safely, the only option is to shut down; existing flights can continue but no new flights can be routed until the anomaly is resolved.
Yeah, he also wrote The Thick of It which is probably the best comedy series I’ve ever seen. Another writer on that was Jesse Armstrong of Succession fame.
Jesse Armstrong also co-wrote Four Lions and Peep Show, amongst others. It's amazing how a very small group of people can have such an influence on a vast amount of cultural output.
It’s also worth adding Charlie Brooker to that list of cultural icons too. Someone who has not only worked with Chris Moris, but also has an exceptional repertoire of his own as well.
he was also an executive consultant on the tv show version of What We Do In The Shadows, which for a few years was the best comedy show on tv imo. The Jesse Armstrong, Armando Ianucci, Chris Morris, Charlie Brooker Channel Four-some has a lot to answer for (although most of Ianucci's work is BBC produced). I think the only other writing comedian of that generation I respect as much is Sacha Baron Cohen, although his work is slightly different
Armando Iannuccis back catalogue is so vast. He's done so so much stuff over the last 30 odd years and so much of it is top tier. Yet few people would recognise the name. He's talented on so many levels. If anyone hasn't I'd highly recommend the 'Armando Iannucci Shows'.
Time Trumpet is enormously underrated. Some of the special effects were done by Ben Wheatley (now a movie director). (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840965)
Yeah, I was getting 500s for about three minutes before they posted the status update. I guess it's good that they at least update the status page in a timely fashion, but the third day in a row of downtime is not exactly good service.
Have to give it to them for how useful their status page is. Other products we use play all kinds of word games to downplay issues so they don't have to show them on the status page, which is extremely annoying.
The failure mode seems different to yesterday - then I was seeing failed pushes, today push works but Actions fail with "GitHub Actions has encountered an internal error when running your job." - but it is still irritating having your workflow interrupted on what seems to be an increasingly frequent basis.
