Also, not really lesser known software, but a lesser known feature of file systems including the ones we use in FOSS operating systems: extended file attributes - useful to add metadata to files without modifying them.

[–] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

restic is better.

[–] mea_rah@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

There's also Rustic. It uses the same repository format as restic. It already has some pretty neat features and since latest release a ton of built-in backends.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Borg, Vorta, Star Trek is everywhere. Why did they name these for the evil guys? Could have named it "The Sisko", everyone know he is infallable.

[–] tutus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I use Kopia because it's cross platform (don't know much about Borg so perhaps if is too). Works really well with little interaction.