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What software do you use? (self.backup)
submitted 1 year ago by Dark_Arc to c/backup
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I'm finding myself frustrated with the open source backup software that's available. Speculatively, the main focus seems to be on sysadmins that want to script their backups in systemd files... But these aren't shared.

I currently use restic, and it just feels like a trap of unknowns. It's well documented how to use the command line, and it has a pretty great reputation at this point. However, despite writing some decent scripts to automate the backups, I can't help but wonder what all I've done wrong.

Am I the only one that has these concerns? What are folks here using?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your backup is only as good as your restore. So have you tested restoring?

[โ€“] username_unavailable 1 points 1 year ago

100% this, if you only have Backups you haven't tested - you don't have any Backups yet.