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Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by qaz@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm planning to set up proper backups for my server, but I'm not sure which software to use. I've looked for solutions with encryption, compressed, incremental backups. These seem to be the best options:

Does anyone have experience with these, and if so, what was your experience?

EDIT 2023-12-28:

It seems most people are using Restic of which about half mention using a wrapper such as resticprofiles, creatic and autorestic.

Borg	Restic	Kopia
3	7	5

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[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Borg (specifically Borg Matic) has been working very well for me. I run it on my main server and then on my Nas I have a Borg server docker container as the repository location.

I also have another repository location my on friends Nas. Super easy to setup multiple targets for the same data.

I will probably also setup a Borg base account for yet another backup.

What I liked a lot here was how easy it is to make automatic backups, retention policy and multiple backup locations .

Open source was a requirement so you can never get locked out of your data. Self hosted. Finally the ability to mount the backup as a volume / drive. So if I want a specific file, I mount that snapshot and just copy that one file over.