I mean the tools mentioned also support these features, how does duplicacy and its prorpietary software make them better?
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droolio@feddit.uk 8 months ago
IMHO, Duplicacy is better than all of them at all those things - multi-machine, cross-platform, zstd compression, encryption, incrementals, de-duplication.
Nyfure@kbin.social 8 months ago
oDDmON@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The subscription model is a wee bit off putting. I employ old hardware and don’t wish to be frog marched into an update/grade that could break that.
Have seen it happen before, been in IT too fucking long not to.
droolio@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yes, I also work in IT.
The paid GUI version is extremely cautious on the auto-updates (it’s basically a wrapper for the CLI) - perhaps a bit too cautious. The free CLI version is also very cautious about making sure your backup storage doesn’t break.
For example, they recently added zstd encryption, yet existing storages stay on lz4 unless you force it - and even then, the two compression methods can exist in the same backup destination. It’s extremely robust in that regard (to the point that if you started forcing zstd compression, or created a new zstd backup destination, you can use the newest CLI to copy data to the older lz4 method and revert - just as an example). And of course you can compile it yourself years from now.
oDDmON@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks for the info, may look into it further.