By interesting coincidence, restic is one of the COPRs that is in Dominik's newest articles. I'd say, go for it! If you can get us an article in a few days, I'd love to take a shot at editing and maybe we can get it out next week.
Paul
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:59:05AM -0500, Curt Warfield wrote:
Hi Paul,
In reference to your questions:
Is rustic available in Fedora? Is it FOSS?
Easy: Fast: Verifiable: Secure: Encryption with AES-256 in counter mode and authenticating it using Poly1305-AES. Efficient: Data deduplication Free: Is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License and actively developed on GitHub.
The easiest way to get restic is the pre-compiled binary on the GitHub page. So you don't even have to install it. Just run the executable.
- Is BackBlaze a popular storage option nowadays? Is there something distinguishing about it?
BackBlaze is becoming popular due to it's free B2 cloud storage. ( Cloud storage that's astonishingly easy and low-cost. 500 million GB stored & over 25 billion files recovered (and counting))
The first 10 GB of storage are absolutely free.
Can you compare this to duplicity/Amazon S3, which we covered in July 2017? https://fedoramagazine.org/taking-smart-backups-duplicity/
To me one of the biggest differences is Amazon S3 only gives you a free trial for 1 year and that even has a limitation of only 5 GB. As I've previously stated, the first 10 GB of cloud storage with B2 is absolutely free forever.
After the 1st 10 GB, the pricing per GB is only $0.005 while Amazon S3 is $0.021 per GB which is 320% more. restic is a newer application that is very active on GitHub.
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 07:40:05PM -0500, Curt Warfield wrote:
This is my first attempt. Please be gentle :-)
Since this topic is quite esoteric, can you fill us in on some background?
Is rustic available in Fedora? Is it FOSS?
Is BackBlaze a popular storage option nowadays? Is there something distinguishing about it?
Can you compare this to duplicity/Amazon S3, which wecovered in July 2017? https://fedoramagazine.org/taking-smart-backups-duplicity/
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