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7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You’re right, that’s one of the remaining pain points of the setup. The rclone connections are all established from the homelab, so potential attackers wouldn’t have any traces of the other servers. But I’m not 100% sure if I’ve protected the local backup copy from a full deletion.

The homelab is currently using Kopia to push some of the most important data to OneDrive. From what I’ve read it works very similarly to Borg (deduplicate, chunk based, compression and encryption) so it would probably also be able to do this task? Or maybe I’ll just move all backups to Borg.

Do you happen to have a helpful opinion on Kopia vs Borg?

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dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I haven’t tried Kopia, so unfortunately I can’t compare the two. A lot of the other backup solutions don’t have an equivalent to Borg’s append-only mode though.

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- fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m a borg guy. I’d never heard of kopia. This is from their docs though:
  
  Each snapshot is always incremental. This means that all data is uploaded once to the repository based on file content, and a file is only re-uploaded to the repository if the file is modified. Kopia uses file splitting based on rolling hash, which allows efficient handling of changes to very large files: any file that gets modified is efficiently snapshotted by only uploading the changed parts and not the entire file.
  
  So looks like they do append only.
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What I mean by “append-only” is that the client can’t delete the backups. I don’t think Kopia supports that.
    
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    fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oooh.
    
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