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N.J. Thomas [2016-06-03 12:06 -0700] :

> There was a story on HackerNews about rsnapshot yesterday, the
> discussion was informative:
> 
>     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11817701
> 
> Several rsnapshot alternatives came up during that discussion
> 
>     Attic - https://attic-backup.org/
>     Borg - https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
>     Obnam - http://obnam.org/

Plus "bup" -- for the sake of completeness.

I quickly read through the story and as I got it borg and attic are
related while borg solved some security issue that attic has.

Obnam is a different approach that has a "well documented filesystem"
but can't do rolling checksums (whatever that is, there's a reference
about that though).

And bup is based on git.

P.S.: Thanks for sharing the link!

    Niklaas