How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Cloud Storage Service

Re:How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Clo... by tluyben2 on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:14AM (#20147439)

I have many servers with different (versions) of Linux distros on them and I found Duplicity | Restic very annoying to install. Vague (for me as non-Python expert) error messages and options randomly not working as a result. Rclone was absolutely painless to install everywhere.

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Re:How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Clo... by KAMSPioneer on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:34AM (#20147668)

Were you getting Python errors from Restic? Not terribly familiar with Duplicity, but Restic is written in Go (Github is https://github.com/restic/restic).

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Re:How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Clo... by tluyben2 on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:44AM (#20147777)

I tried 4 different similar packages; maybe I remember that detail wrong, but I could not get Restic working on older machines for some reason. Rclone was so simple and it just worked, so I did not investigate further. Is Restic much better?

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Re:How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Clo... by witten on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:49AM (#20147832)

You might be thinking of Borg Backup, which is written in Python: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/

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Re:How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Clo... by anderspitman on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:36PM (#20148896)

Yeah for me the hardest part about installing restic was remembering how to unzip a bz2 file. I don't know what more you can ask for than a statically linked binary...

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Re:How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Clo... by tluyben2 on Monday June 10, 2019 @02:07PM (#20149211)

Ok, cannot have been Restic then; thanks, I am going to try that one now. And find out what the other Python one was; I was following an SO recommendation.

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