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I use Kopia to do encrypted incremental backups of my user directory.
fwiw, I used Kopia for around a year, but eventually the backup got corrupted with a BLOB not found error and there was no way to fix it.
similar to this issue, except that nothing would fix or improve the situation https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1087
and because it seemed to be an issue with the repo (not just with a snapshot), the remote copy was also borked. I couldn't even list the snapshots.
I've since migrated to Rustic (though Restic might be more reliable today).
This seems to be the a similar issue too, but I was nowhere near the scale of this user. There are other similar reports that may or may not be linked to the same root cause, so it's hard to say how rare this problem is.
Duplicacy
Borg seems fine to me.
Duplicati is probably one of the easier options.
Agree, I use it myself. My only gripe is that it seems pretty slow, not sure if thats the deduplication part or what, haven't bothered looking into it because i run the backup after im in bed so not a big deal.
If you are gonna run the backups during daytime might be a problem.
Then again though, could just be my setup (havent looking into it).
Take a look at Restic Not the easiest, but so far as proven to be reliable and performant
Also look at https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile and https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest for tools built on top of restic cli
Wow, I’ve been a longtime user of restic and never knew about resticprofile, it seems super nice. Already at a glance through the docs, the ease of doing an inherited stdin-enabled sql backup group alone is super exciting.
Thank for pointing this one out!
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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