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Obnam 1.0 (backup software); first stable release

Obnam 1.0 (backup software); first stable release

Posted Jun 1, 2012 21:33 UTC (Fri) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913)
Parent article: Obnam 1.0 (backup software); first stable release

I would be interested to know how it compares against bup, which I use now.

Previously I used duplicity; I switched to bup not for any fundamental ideological reason, but because it seemed to use less space which is important for me. bup doesn't do encryption natively, but I get around that by doing the backups to an encfs-mounted directory, then rsyncing that directory to the final (remote) destination.


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Obnam 1.0 (backup software); first stable release

Posted Jun 4, 2012 21:09 UTC (Mon) by samroberts (subscriber, #46749) [Link]

And rsnapshot.

Obnam 1.0 (backup software); first stable release

Posted Jun 6, 2012 4:43 UTC (Wed) by liw (subscriber, #6379) [Link]

Comparisons with other backup tools would be nice, but it's not something that I (as the Obnam author) want to do, since I don't have in-depth knowledge of most other tools, and I don't want to spend the time to get that. I would rather improve Obnam based on feedback from its users about what is important.

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