Backup

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/64720674

David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for PostgreSQL, has archived the project and announced that it is no longer being maintained.

After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship for much of this time, but there were also many late nights and weekends as I worked to make pgBackRest the project it is today, aided by numerous contributors. Every open-source developer knows exactly what I mean and how much of your life gets devoted to a special project.

Since Crunchy Data was sold, I have been maintaining pgBackRest and looking for a position that would allow me to continue the work, but so far I have not been successful. Likewise, my efforts to secure sponsorship have also fallen far short of what I need to make the project viable.

Some weeks back I found a list of backups created by the restic project - Restic others. Does not seem like it is active so I am picking it up to maintain it in a different location and with some additional functionality.

One thing that would like input is whether we should mark Inactive software through a tag, have it's own category or outright just delete. I am leaning towards having it's own category, but would like feedback.

I've put a tiny piece of blue tape on Blu-ray disc with data, and, surprisingly, it was still fully readable (reading speed dropped at this place, that's all).

Next, I've put a slightly bigger piece of tape on it, and it made ~15% of disc unreadable. Reading "damaged" areas is quite slow, so I interrupted ddrescue/dvdisaster when data reading speed dropped too low, and it was around 15%.

Both results are strange to me. First is almost too good to believe, second is too bad. Maybe data behind little piece of tape have been recovered by internal Error Correction Code? And big piece, sure it didn't cover 15% of readable surface. Maybe full "recover" by ddrescue would have copied a lot more data, but I doubt it.

Why do you put tape on your disc?

I was trying to proof DVDisaster application works and will be able to recover missing data. I've failed to do so.

I have been involved with backups (own, work, as consultant) for quite a long time and currently use Restic for my backups. Interested on learning more about different options.

Besides Restic I have used Bacula, Kopia and Hashbackup; likely others that I can't recall.

So far, mostly happy with Restic, but wanting to explore options just to know what different packages offer.

Found these two useful lists Awesome backup by oz123

Restic site list of other backups - this one is really extensive, but has not had any updates in years and they don't see to be merging PRs for it.

Interested on hearing what others are using and if there is any community or forum that is more active with regards to backups.

I'm finding myself frustrated with the open source backup software that's available. Speculatively, the main focus seems to be on sysadmins that want to script their backups in systemd files... But these aren't shared.

I currently use restic, and it just feels like a trap of unknowns. It's well documented how to use the command line, and it has a pretty great reputation at this point. However, despite writing some decent scripts to automate the backups, I can't help but wonder what all I've done wrong.

Am I the only one that has these concerns? What are folks here using?