- https://www.borgbackup.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_(backup_software)#Borg
- https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Backup/
This utility lets me back up files resp. directories
- to a target directory (which can be a “network share“)
- as well as to a remote directory reachable through SSH.
Its target is called a repository.
In order to browse the backups I can mount that repository to a local directory – Borg lets me mount a repository
- from a local directory
- but also from a remote directory reachable through SSH
to a local directory.
One of my favourite features of Borg: On my NAS (which is where I SSH to) I can “borg mount” the back-ups created “from remote” (in “read-only” mode) – this is perfect, because I can browse my backups exactly where they are physically located, i.e. with minimal overhead, easy use of Unix / Linux commands for finding and inspecting files.
Borg is perfect for backing up files from a desktop computer and also from a server computer.
Borg is open source and it comes free.
Borg is rather easy to install.
Just like rsync Borg does not physically copy over a file, which is already in the repository, but it does everything to make the file appear as residing in the backup snapshot.