Re:Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
by StavrosK on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:54AM
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Restic looks pretty interesting, I wasn't aware of it, thank you. I don't know how Restic can achieve its goals, since AFAIK you need a binary running on the server to diff/check data/verify restores/etc without transferring all that over the network.
Borg runs a binary on the server to do this, that's why it can't easily back up to S3 et al.
Re:Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
by johntash on Monday March 25, 2019 @01:15PM
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IIRC Restic keeps indexes of data it uploads to configured backends. I think it caches that index locally, but it can also download it from the remote backend to compare.
Borg runs a binary on the server to do this, that's why it can't easily back up to S3 et al.