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Not only does borg have strong encryption, it also has git-like incrimental versioning and insanely good compression and de-duplication.
For example, I backup my whole 700GB OS drive (personal data + the whole linux OS install with all my tweaks and configs) - I set it to keep the last 15 "snapshots" (7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly, 1 yearly) and all it takes on the borg server is 800GB.
I like using borgmatic for automatic borg backups, but it's optional.
If you like a GUI, Vorta is great.
What are you paying for 800gb?
Backing up linux is cheating as it can be compressed heavily.
I can backup my whole linux install on Veeam Backup and Replication about 2-3x for the full backup on optimal.
Restic is incredible fast and encrypted.
This is the way
@AlThePilcrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone I'm using restic to backup my NAS to a Hetzner storage box. (1TB for ~€3/month)
It's easy, and you can SSH into the box to verify what's actually there.
Restic's dedupe is very good. I used to take uncompressed tars of whole systems and it would add only megabytes to the storage repo each time. Almost everything got deduped despite being in various tar files and very fast.
I think a lot of backup programs offer encrypted backups. You enable that and it gets encrypted before being transferred to the remote machine.