#Duplicacy restore to new machine update#

It’s also much faster sending the files to BackBlaze than Crashplan to the Crashplan cloud. In my system Duplicacy can do the initial dedupe, encryption and backup to a local disk faster than Crashplan can finish one scan. About two years ago the scans started taking a lot longer, I worked with them for about a year before I gave up. That’s not the only problem with Crashplan. I feel much better about a potential disaster recovery. So yeah, I’m very excited about duplicacy because it’s robust and very fast both backing up and restoring. Rclone: N/A as it never finished the original uploadĭuplicacy destroys the competition yet again.

#Duplicacy restore to new machine update#

Update on subsequent incremental backup speed on the same data set with whatever new files got uploaded since yesterday:

Unacceptable performance due to file-by-file copying. Rclone (without restic): it’s been 3-4 days and it’s only like 25% done. Some numbers for a ~400GB initial Linux backup with ~2mln files. I posted this comparison on Twitter, but I’ll repost it here. It’s been running pretty much flawless so far.īut let’s talk about speeds. After figuring out how it works, I set it up on the command line (duplicacy web is, unfortunately, still unstable and crashed for me during a restore) and wrote a script to run and log the backups. Thankfully, I then found duplicacy on someone’s recommendation. There are lots of experimental and unstable versions, and the last beta was really buggy and slow too. Particularly, while backups were relatively fast (2mln files ~500GB in a day), restores to other hardware in case of a catastrophic loss were extremely slow at best and broken at worst. I then moved on to duplicati which was much better, but still had a large number of issues and was more confusing that it needs to be. I’m going to use both as that’s only $57/mo - very cheap for unlimited.Īnyway, I started testing with rclone but quickly realized that the 2.5mln files we have (and growing) would take days or even weeks to sync (at least without rclone+restic) because cloud operations are expensive and slow. Later, I found that Google Drive for Gsuite Business offers the same but for $12/mo (they say you need min 5 users for this, but it’s been working for myself and others with just 1 user). I wanted our new backup solution to be cheap, unlimited, and fast.Īfter doing a bunch of research, I selected Box $45/mo for unlimited transfers and storage. It’s quite appalling how bad CrashPlan actually is - and if you think it’s slow backing up, just wait till you have to restore (if you can even get the file listing to load). We have a lot of data to back up (8TB+ and growing) and I’ve recently been looking for a better solution than CrashPlan that we’ve been using that hasn’t been able to keep up at all.