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Sooo, #backrest is not really my thing either. You can't change the connection settings of an existing repository, which means no credential rotation and no clean way to handle IP changes when a server moves. That's a pretty fundamental limitation for a backup solution.

I'll take a closer look at #restic without relying on a frontend.

I'm also skeptical about #Borg #Backup and, more broadly, backup tools built on Python/Ruby/shell stacks. There's a lot of room for subtle breakage without strict type safety, and pushing performance-critical parts down into C/C++/ASM layers doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

Makes me wonder what enterprise solutions look like under the hood. Apparently #Veeam is C#, which is actually a reasonable choice - but requiring a Windows server (and not being OSS) makes it a non-starter for me.

Sooo, #backrest is not really my thing either. You can't change the connection settings of an existing repository, which means no credential rotation and no clean way to handle IP changes when a server moves. That's a pretty fundamental limitation for a backup solution.

I'll take a closer look at #restic without relying on a frontend.

I'm also skeptical about #Borg #Backup and, more broadly, backup tools built on Python/Ruby/shell stacks. There's a lot of room for subtle breakage without strict type safety, and pushing performance-critical parts down into C/C++/ASM layers doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

Makes me wonder what enterprise solutions look like under the hood. Apparently #Veeam is C#, which is actually a reasonable choice - but requiring a Windows server (and not being OSS) makes it a non-starter for me.

Sooo, #backrest is not really my thing either. You can't change the connection settings of an existing repository, which means no credential rotation and no clean way to handle IP changes when a server moves. That's a pretty fundamental limitation for a backup solution.

I'll take a closer look at #restic without relying on a frontend.

I'm also skeptical about #Borg #Backup and, more broadly, backup tools built on Python/Ruby/shell stacks. There's a lot of room for subtle breakage without strict type safety, and pushing performance-critical parts down into C/C++/ASM layers doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

Makes me wonder what enterprise solutions look like under the hood. Apparently #Veeam is C#, which is actually a reasonable choice - but requiring a Windows server (and not being OSS) makes it a non-starter for me.

Sooo, #backrest is not really my thing either. You can't change the connection settings of an existing repository, which means no credential rotation and no clean way to handle IP changes when a server moves. That's a pretty fundamental limitation for a backup solution.

I'll take a closer look at #restic without relying on a frontend.

I'm also skeptical about #Borg #Backup and, more broadly, backup tools built on Python/Ruby/shell stacks. There's a lot of room for subtle breakage without strict type safety, and pushing performance-critical parts down into C/C++/ASM layers doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

Makes me wonder what enterprise solutions look like under the hood. Apparently #Veeam is C#, which is actually a reasonable choice - but requiring a Windows server (and not being OSS) makes it a non-starter for me.

@_DigitalWriter_

Hm, #kopia gefällt mir nicht besonders 😑 Für den Einsatz auf allen Plattformen nutze ich seit Kurzem #Backrest. Ein endgültiges Urteil habe ich mir aber noch nicht gebildet. Unter Linux nutze ich #Vorta und #Restic direkt im Terminal.

Hab’ mir dafür ein Tool gebastelt, um mir die Befehle nicht merken zu müssen:

https://rhelp.familie-michels.org

https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

https://vorta.borgbase.com