"Gareth Evans" <donots...@fastmail.fm> writes: > It's not truly "incremental", though combines compression, > deduplication and optional encryption, which may improve on that.
Not "incremental" in the traditional tape-backup sense, which requires periodic full backups. A closer term might be "incremental forever" (like IBM TSM), meaning you never need to resend the same data. For use cases such as typical workstations (where data churn is minimal), hourly backups are practical and cost-effective and is much better RPO (recovery point objetive) than daily backups. Borg has a few pain points (e.g., locking, which prevents simultaneous data restoration and new backups), but overall, it is awesome. > I use borg on rsync.net for remote backup. The only remote providers I know > of are: > > https://rsync.net > https://www.borgbase.com Hetzner supports Borg and offers reasonably priced plans. https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/access/access-ssh-rsync-borg/
