>> besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup?
> I use borg. It stores files in its own archive format with
> deduplication and compression. 4 backups of 32G /+/home of my old
> netbook created every month stored in ~11GB backup directory.
> Slower than rsync, eat more cpu, need borg binary at remote storage
> (or mount storage local). Chosen backup archive (see borg list
> $backup-path) may be r/o mounted for restoring some files if needed.
I use Bup, which provides a fairly similar featureset to Borg (tho
doesn't support encryption yet). AFAIK the main difference is that
instead of its own archive format, Bup uses the Git repository format.
I haven't actually tried Borg, but I'm surprised by "slower than rsync,
eat more cpu" because I'd expect it to perform similarly to Bup, and
(for my use case at least) Bup performs incremental backups
significantly faster and using less CPU (especially on the server to
which I send my backups) than the rsync system I used before.
OTOH, Bup is much slower than Rsync when it comes to browsing the
resulting backup (done via a read-only `fuse` mount).
Stefan
