Brief notes on a comparison I made between Restic and Borg on Sunday, October 10th, 2021. Both make it easy to use a Grandfather-father-son backup scheme. Both support encrypted backups. Restic supports many different targets, including regular file…

Grandfather-father-son backup is a common rotation scheme for backup media, in which there are three or more backup cycles, such as hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. This scheme allows you to express backup schemes like the following: Create a back…