Re: Recommendation sought how to maintain off-site backups/mirrors
martin f krafft via BackupPC-users <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:30:41 +0200
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Thanks for your reply, Les!
Running a second BackupPC server is an interesting approach, but won't
work in this case. The storage I have is dumb, i.e. I can use
`sftp`, `rsync` & `rclone` and `borg` and a few others, but I cannot run
other processes there.
`rclone crypt` doesn't seem to work. It seems to me that this mode is
unable to just pick up new and deleted files and transfer them, it just
runs for days on end.
I tried `rsync` off a local `gocryptfs` mount, and while promising, it
made me realise that `cpool` should not be a problem to sync, but every
backup creates a massive hierarchy under `pc/*/xxxx/f%2f/` anew. I have
not tried `--fuzzy` to help with the fact that most of the files
thereunder are already present on the remote.
I am currently giving `borgbackup` a shot, as it seems to be able to
deduplicate locally and talk to the remote server to figure out what
actually needs to be transferred.
I'll keep y'all posted.
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<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: auto">Thanks for your reply, Les!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: auto">Running a second BackupPC server is an interesting approach, but won’t work in this case. The storage I have is dumb, i.e. I can use <code>sftp</code>, <code>rsync</code> & <code>rclone</code> and <code>borg</code> and a few others, but I cannot run other processes there.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: auto"><code>rclone crypt</code> doesn’t seem to work. It seems to me that this mode is unable to just pick up new and deleted files and transfer them, it just runs for days on end.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: auto">I tried <code>rsync</code> off a local <code>gocryptfs</code> mount, and while promising, it made me realise that <code>cpool</code> should not be a problem to sync, but every backup creates a massive hierarchy under <code>pc/*/xxxx/f%2f/</code> anew. I have not tried <code>--fuzzy</code> to help with the fact that most of the files thereunder are already present on the remote.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: auto">I am currently giving <code>borgbackup</code> a shot, as it seems to be able to deduplicate locally and talk to the remote server to figure out what actually needs to be transferred.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; text-justify: auto">I’ll keep y’all posted.</p>
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