ikaru

Hello Thorsten, Although I have never posted before, this time I felt compelled to share my experience. After a long search for the perfect backup solution (at least for my specific needs), Duplicati had worked well until now, but the goal was to find something even better. Other options like Kopia or Duplicacy didn't fully meet the criteria; while fast, they lacked in ergonomics or missing features, which led to further exploration. That’s when I discovered the magnificent Borg Backup UI. There is no issue with Borg being a plugin; on the contrary. With Duplicati (running in Docker), during a large restoration, the cache would grow so much that it saturated the Docker SSD (though this might have been due to misconfiguration ;) ). Backups are now configured to a USB drive, a local NAS via SMB, and a remote NAS via SSH. Even without being an expert, everything was successfully set up. A minor issue occurred with SSH backups to a Synology NAS: the system kept indicating that Borg had to be installed on the Synology, but getting it to work proved difficult. Ultimately, switching to generic SSH resolved the problem without any particular issues. The “restore test” feature is absolutely brilliant. Verifying backups is essential, something that often gets overlooked, but now it’s fully automated, so there’s no need to think about it anymore. A huge thank you for that! There is, however, one suggestion, though I’m not sure if it’s technically feasible: in the job section, where the operation state shows “running,” would it be possible to add a progress bar or something similar with maybe the tranfrt speed ? A 6 TB backup has been running for 24 hours now, and being able to check the progress at a glance would be incredibly helpful. Thank you again for this indispensable tool.