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Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by StavrosK on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:31PM (#13854546)
Since you're comfortable with looking into Tarsnap, I'll recommend Borg:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by balladeer on Sunday March 12, 2017 @11:23PM (#13855012)
A GUI, even a dead simple one - in fact preferably a dead simple one, that comes with some cron job or other ways to make it run all the time (file watching?) or as an optional feature would help a lot of people (including me) to switch to such excellent open source options.
Re:We will no longer use the phrase “zero knowledge” to desc... by trqx on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:22AM (#13857996)
I chose to replace duplicity with borg backup because I needed to backup a headless server and I found borg pruning to be much simpler to script than duplicity.

`borg prune -v --list $REPOSITORY --prefix '{hostname}-' --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6`

Now, if I just had laptops to backup I would have chose deja-dup over borg because I could have configured it in seconds.

A nice project would be to code a TUI front-end to borg init/create/prune/check commands that is as quick to setup as deja-dup and automatically adds systemd units or cron jobs to the system, with an alert triggered when something fails.

Yes I tried backupninja with borg but encountered some problems with it.