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Hey, you probably know about restic and borg for backups. They are pretty mature and very commonly used.

Rustic is a fully compatible reimplementation of restic in Rust and they do seem to have implemented a few improvements over restic. The developer even used to be a contributor on restic.

Is anyone here using it already? It looks super promising but I'd love to hear your opinion!

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[-] Lasso1971@thelemmy.club -2 points 3 years ago

What's the advantage of this over

sudo tar -czvf /backupFile.tar.gz folder/to/backup/ gpg -o backupFile.tar.gz.gpg --symmetric backupFile.tar.gz

[-] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 years ago

Less storage space (since you don't duplicate the data that has not been changed since the last backup), and ability to check different versions / restore / rollback.

[-] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago

Mostly it comes down to data types, disk space, and restores. Even if you're doing incremental backups with tar it isn't as fast, space efficient, or easy to restore, (in most cases) as something like restic, borg, etc..

I have found when you just need something simple that just works everywhere then its hard to beat tar!

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