scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

Anyone here using #Borgmatic? Are you happy with it?

If you're using another #BorgBackup wrapper and think it's better than Borgmatic, feel free to suggest it (and tell me why it's better.)

Plain Borg simply doesn't quite cut it for me, I'd like to have some kind of declarative configuration that I can share between machines and yet still have minor differences between them. I was about to write my own wrapper, but Borgmatic looks like it could be everything I need.

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

After trying out #borgmatic for a bit: It's alright, and I'm probably gonna use it, but some things about it feel odd.

• You cannot configure the encryption mode in the YAML config. borgmatic init requires it as a command-line flag.

• While init is a no-op on existing repos, it doesn't check whether the encyption in the command actually matches that in the existing repo.

• Many CLI options (e.g. create --verbosity 1 --list --stats) cannot be configured in the YAML.

#BorgBackup

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

Created https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/issues/840 for the "init on existing repo" thing, and commented in https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/issues/303 about the "options in config" thing.

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

#borgmatic fixed the "init on existing repo" issue (https://projects.torsion.org/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic/issues/840) and released 1.8.9 containing the fix. That was fast, kudos!

18+ guerda,
@guerda@ruhr.social avatar

@scy do you have experience with restic? I would be interested in you experience. For me it was smooth but I didn't test it extensively as you seem to do with borgmatic

scy,
@scy@chaos.social avatar

@guerda sigh Because of you I'm now evaluating restic too :)

I had last looked into it two or three years ago or something, and decided against it because it didn't support compression.

But now it does …

henryk,
@henryk@chaos.social avatar

@scy I especially like that for newer versions of Borgmatic you can configure that consistency checks not happen every time. So, set backup to hourly, but full check only every two days or similar.

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