Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
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·July 20, 2025thangngoc89
sureglymop
I also use restic and do backups to append-only rest-servers in multiple locations.
I also back up multiple hosts to the same repository, which actually results in insane storage space savings. One thing I'm missing though is being able to specify multiple repositories for one snapshot such that I have consistency across the multiple backup locations. For now the snapshots just have different ids.
kachapopopow
Restic is far better both in terms of usability and packaging (borgmatic pretty much is a requirement for usability). Have used both extensively, you can argue that borg can just be scripted instead and is a lot more versitile, but I had a much better experience with restic in terms of setup and forget. I am not scared that restic will break, with borg I did.
Also not sure why this was posted, did a new version release or something?
blablabla123
I once met the Borg author at a conference, pretty chill guy. He said that when people file bugs because of data corruption, it's because his tool found the underlying disk to be broken. Sounds quite reliable although I'm mostly fine with tar...
vrighter
I used to work on backup software. I lost count of the number of times this happened to us with our clients too
rollcat
I've been using it for ~10 years at work and at home. Fantastic software.
ElectronBadger
I using it with via Vorta (https://vorta.borgbase.com) frontend. My favorite backup solution so far.
Kudos
Pika Backup (https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/) pointed at https://borgbase.com is my choice.
toenail
Last time I checked the deduplication only works per host when backups are encrypted, which makes sense. Anyway, borg is one of the three backup systems I use, it's alright.
arendtio
Which are the others?
creamyhorror
I remember using Borg Backup before eventually switching to Duplicati. It's been a while.
Snild
I currently use borg, and have never heard of Duplicati. What made you switch?
I switched to restic (https://restic.net/) and the backrest webui (https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest) for Windows support. Files are deduplicated across machines with good compression support.