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Show HN: A tool for painless automated backups

22 pointsby christophetdabout 7 years ago

6 comments

mtmailabout 7 years ago
If it uses <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gilbertchen&#x2F;duplicacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gilbertchen&#x2F;duplicacy</a> in the background it needs a (huge?) disclaimer that a $20 per year license for commercial use is required.<p>What is the license on your code?
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45h34jh53k4jabout 7 years ago
I used to use duplicacy, but switched to Duplicati: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.duplicati.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.duplicati.com&#x2F;</a><p>Works in mono in all OS&#x27;s, ive used it on mac, linux and windows. Supports GPG (public) and AES (secret) key encryption, all the cloud backends, etc. Provides a Web UI.<p>Its also LGPL so no concerns about commercial licensing ala Duplicacy.
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AdmiralAsshatabout 7 years ago
Given how close &#x27;duplicacy&#x27; sounds to &#x27;duplicity&#x27;, and that they have the exact same purpose (backup tool), I&#x27;m surprised they haven&#x27;t been sued yet. Particularly since there is a paid license cost:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duplicacy.com&#x2F;buy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duplicacy.com&#x2F;buy.html</a>
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ThatHNGuyabout 7 years ago
I find rclone much better (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;</a>)
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confoundedabout 7 years ago
Any support for unattended asymmetric encryption, with the private key stored off-box?
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_o_about 7 years ago
Take this as a positive criticism, I dont want to put you down, but today everyone is considering backup as problem of moving data. Which is wrong. This is far from what I would expect from backup tool. You have many targets but than this is just a data moving tool to the cloud. On the other side rarely any serious organisation moves the data to the cloud and even if they do, it is considered as second tier storage. Primary target is always to the streamer (tape), it is THE only storage that was time proven. Also, there are some concepts; incremential, differential, delta, rehydrating, archiving, lets not even go into deduplication... and there are open source solutions for that. Backup word is not a simple tag, do your homework and study the backup field, it is highly complex and far from moving the data from point A to point B, maybe just a thought to show you the importance, some organisations have separate backbone for backups and disk arrays to minimise downtime, the data are not always on disk, the minimum you need is flushing the disk cache, for the database you will hit into words like freeze, for virtual machines... well.. good luck :)<p>But anyway, nice to see you like it enough to write a tool, just keep on going :)<p>----<p>After my initial post, I was dowvoted. To justify that: this is not a backup, it is just an alternative to rsync or cp with multiple targets and more of something I would run after a real backup has finished. If someone is looking for real backup, there are multiple open source backup products that know their domain. This one clearly does not.
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