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  • tl;dr Duplicity does full or incremental backups, BorgBackup only does full backups but with deduplication.

    After the first backup with Duplicity, you can choose to do an incremental backup which will only store the data that has changed since the last backup. This saves time and disk space but you have to do slow full backups regularly. See question 3 of the FAQ.

    BorgBackup alway does a full backup. But it divides all data into chunks or blocks (don’t know what they call it exactly at the moment). It then hashes those chunks and stores them in a content-addressed storage layer. So it basically works like Git under the hood (plus encryption). If a chunk doesn’t change between backups it‘s already there and does not have to be stored again. A backup is always a full index of the data.

    With today‘s fast processors and hashing algorithms, a backup with Borg should be just as fast as an incremental backup with Duplicity. If you ask me deduplicated backups are just plain superior.

    Another tool that works like BorgBackup is Restic, which I prefer. Both are good choices that I would trust with my data.










  • foonex@feddit.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhat are YOU self-hosting?
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    When I looked around for CalDAV solutions the last time Nextcloud was the only one that allowed me to share calendars with my SO. Nextcloud isn‘t very taxing on my system because it doesn‘t do anything most of the time.

    Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?

    Honestly, I don‘t know. I have never had a confirmed case of an email being rejected or classified as spam. There were some cases of not getting an answer to an email. But that could also be explained by shitty customer service.

    It is tricky to setup everything correctly if you are trying to do it all on your own but SNM holds your hand for setting up DKIM, SPF and DMARC. That‘s where some people may have problems. Also, forget about setting up a mail server at home with any IP address you get from your internet provider.


    • Plex and Jellyfin for movies and TV shows. I want to switch from Plex to Jellyfin but it is not quite there yet. It‘s very little effort to keep Jellyfin running in parallel though. I am keeping it around to regularly compare the two and re-evaluate.
    • Tube Archivist for archiving and watching YouTube videos.
    • Miniflux for reading feeds.
    • Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
    • Syncthing for syncing files.
    • Financier for budgeting.
    • Paperless-ngx for managing documents.
    • Qbittorrent for downloading and sharing Linux ISOs.
    • Prowlarr for searching Linux ISOs.
    • Copyparty for sharing Linux ISOs with friends.
    • Shaarli for saving bookmarks.
    • Jekyll for statically generating my personal blog.
    • Caddy as HTTP server / reverse proxy for all of the above. Automatically provisions certificates from Let‘s Encrypt.
    • PostgreSQL as database for Nextcloud and Miniflux.
    • Simple Nixos Mailserver for emails with Postfix, Dovecot and rspamd.
    • Dehydrated for getting certificates from Let‘s Encrypt for the mail server.
    • Btrbk and Restic for backups.

    Most of this stuff runs on my server at home (ASRock J4105-ITX, 8 GB RAM , 250 GB SSD, 18 TB HDD). The mail server and the blog run on a cheap VPS (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD). Both servers run NixOS.