Considering to change my #backup solution from #duplicity to #restic (Not sure yet, I like having #pgp keys for encryption, but it's not like a long password stored in #PasswordStore wouldn't cut it). Since restic supports Windows I might try moving a couple relatives onto it; Makes helping them easier if I know the software. For them however, a #GUI is likely a MUST, but what I've found so far is not too encouraging: restatic (dead), npbackup ("metrics" and other assorted niggles), resticguigx (Electron), backrest (browser-based, which makes my skin crawl for security tooling)... Does anyone know other options I missed? Or has some compelling arguments for those I mentioned?
@lpwaterhouse The reason why I did this switch is that Duplicity does not support large backups. The ticket is open for over a decade and still not solved.
@ascherbaum Yeah. My main issue is that duplicity feels very hacky in an "old unix grognard" kind of way (Not that I ain't one of those, but still). Been hearing good things about restic for a while now (out of the CCC universe), but looking at things like https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/187 (asymmetric encryption) being open since 2015, with quotes like "restic currently requires delete privileges for normal backup operation" (in 2021) make me somewhat hesitant... Especially given the claim that it "does backups right". The biggest draw for me really is not having to fiddle with some arcane Windows-only solution when asked for help...
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