BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released (github.com)

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 6, 2016 @05:13AM from the two-is-one-and-one-is-none dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After almost a year of development, bug fixing and cleanup, BorgBackup 1.0.0 has been released. BorgBackup is a fork of the Attic-Backup project — a deduplicating, compressing, encrypting and authenticating backup program for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other unixoid operating systems (Windows may also work using CygWin, but that is rather experimental/unsupported). It works on 32bit as well as on 64bit platforms, x86/x64 and ARM CPUs (maybe as well on others, but these are the tested ones). For Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, there are single-file binaries which can be just copied onto a system and contain everything needed (Python, libraries, BorgBackup itself). Of course, it can be also installed from source. BorgBackup is FOSS (BSD License) and implemented in Python 3 (91%), speed critical parts are in C or Cython (9%).

1 of 64 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

It definitely has its place... by mlts · 2016-03-06 06:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

There is a definite place for Borgbackup, attic, bup, obnam, zbackup and other deduplicating backup utilities. The ability to just toss data whenever you feel like it, and only deltas get saved (after being compressed) is a nice thing. Same with having decent encryption.
I personally have been using zbackup for a while, which is quite usable for backups, especially via SSH, where it can SSH into my NAS, fetch data, and only store what is changed to some media I rotate out for safekeeping. Zbackup has not had much Git activity, but Borgbackup has had an extreme amount of work done with it, so it is definitely a utility to watch and consider using.