Anybody using #FreeBSD, #borgbackup and ACLs who could help with that?:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/9144

I’m thinking that rsync is not sufficient for important large data backups. Even if I’m rsyncing the data away to the Hetzner Storage Box.
I need something more advanced with deduplication and so on. I tried #borgbackup in the past, and that thing was absolutely not user-friendly. It was rather user-hostile.
Now, #SelfHosted community has #Duplicati and #Duplicacy? Does someone use one? Any recommendations?

#homelab #selfhosting #selfhost #backup #backups #databackup

borg 2.0.0b23-pre benchmarks from some essential components of borg:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/discussions/10056

#borgbackup #blake3 #hashing #chunking #zstd #compression #algorithms #simd

I just found out that @borgbackup #Borg #BorgBackup is vibe coded now. That's a tragedy. Really upsetting, to be honest.

I've been safeguarding priceless data with Borg for years, but I obviously can't entrust something so important to code that wasn't written by skilled hands and reviewed by skilled minds.

What full-system #backup software for #Linux do people recommend instead?

#BorgBackup's new website is mind-blowing! Well done to whoever made the upgrade.

https://www.borgbackup.org/

🤖 💾 🎉

borgbackup 2.0.0b22 was just released!

First release with packs and also other exciting changes - do not use with production repositories!

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b22

#borgbackup #linux #macOS #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #backup

#borgbackup 1.4.5 was just released!

Some fixes, including a low severity security fix, some new features, some other changes.

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.5

#linux #FreeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #macos #omniOS

On #Android? Looking for a backup solution that doesn't rely on a big commercial service or require setting up and securing an entirely new server?

I wrote a little blog post on how I use #Termux and #BorgBackup to back up my phone to a server of mine over plain SSH. It includes some nuggets 😂 like using the SSH `command` directive to prevent the backup user from getting full shell access.

Curious? Head over to:
https://fabionatali.com/posts/backing-up-my-android-phone-with-termux-and-borgbackup/index.html

⚽🎉💻📱

#selfhosting #freesoftware

Can anyone guess what my fix was for ”Why is Mattermost always down in the early morning hours!?” 😅

Hint: Maybe #borgBackup should by default ignore the very repo it is backup-ing into...

UPDATE: Sorry, wrongly blamed @borgbackup - the backup included a #btrfs #snapper snapshots directory (which itself included the borg repo *several times* 😅). Although the inodes are equal, so borg could check that...

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Matplotlib plot titled "BorgBackup Duration". x-axis: time (months from 2026-03 to 2026-07), y-axis: hours. A blue curve starts at zero and is now at around 9 hours.

homelab storage server ready. it just took me 2 years.
- RAID ✅
- mkfs, fstab, etc ✅
- borg ✅
- borg extract ⏳
😴

#linux #sysadmin #borgbackup

borgmatic 2.1.6 has been released with MariaDB system database dump improvements, credential support for KeePassXC's "secret service," and an experimental archive file browsing UI (see screenshot).

#borgmatic #borgbackup #backup

Release notes: https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/releases/tag/2.1.6

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borgmatic browse screenshot

Les gens qui utilisent #Windows (de gré ou de force), vous avez quoi comme alternative #foss à #BorgBackup pour faire de jolies #sauvegardes bien propres, automatisées et chiffrées ?

BorgBase stellt Vykar vor: Neuer Ansatz für Borg-Backups
https://linuxnews.de/borgbase-stellt-vykar-vor-neuer-ansatz-fuer-borg-backups/ #borgbackup #vykar #linux #linuxnews

What's the best way to keep an offsite copy of a local borg backup?

I currently use rsync to just fetch the latest version, but running a borg compact on the (space-constrained) original repo results in about 15% of the files being new or changed, so that's a lot of work for rsync on a 500 GB backup.

#borgbackup