Hi Paul,
In reference to your questions:
1) 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.
2) 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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From: "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Curt Warfield" <cwarfiel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [Pitch] - https://wp.me/p3XX0v-5eg
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 07:40:05PM -0500, Curt Warfield wrote:
> This is my first attempt. Please be gentle :-)
>
> https://wp.me/p3XX0v-5eg
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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