Backup Software Recommendations

This cluster focuses on recommendations for personal and offsite data backup tools and services like Backblaze, restic, Tarsnap, BorgBackup, and CrashPlan, with users sharing setups, experiences, and alternatives for reliable backups.

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emsy May 22, 2015 View on HN

Why don't you use Backblaze or CrashPlan?

chucky_z Mar 28, 2019 View on HN

For backing up something personal, why don't you just use actual Backblaze?

jolux Jun 30, 2020 View on HN

I have BackBlaze running continuously. You can do similar with Tarsnap.

anderspitman Jun 7, 2019 View on HN

I recommend looking into restic and/or rclone

catacombs May 5, 2020 View on HN

Backblaze might be what you're looking for.Otherwise, you could use an external hard drive and rsync

sneak Oct 5, 2021 View on HN

Backblaze is ideal for this use case.

aborsy Sep 25, 2021 View on HN

There are a lot of options, all doing those items, including BorgBackup and Restic.

balladeer Oct 16, 2018 View on HN

After using the discounted small business version till this month I finally moved my backup to: restic [0] + B2.It was really just a 30m job and I have a setup that backups 4 times a day and prunes etc twice a week. You might want to checkout their forum if you need any help. I had tried Borg and duplicity [1] too but found restic to be perfect for my need.I also have Tarsnap[2] for the double backup of my most important data.[0] http

srockets Mar 2, 2021 View on HN

The only answer for backups is Tarsnap.

oso2k Aug 20, 2014 View on HN

Backblaze [0] not doing it for you? Or are you running Linux?[0] https://www.backblaze.com/