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OSS backup comparison

Name	Usability				Source				Efficiency				Target					Impression
Name	Easy to use	Central manage	WebUI	mount backup	backup from remote	client-less	backup from WAN	Full system backup	dedup	Cross client dedup	comp	inc. forever	Redundancy	to S3	to Tape	replicate backups	Periodic backup check	Impression
duplicaCY	Easy	No	Yes	No	No			No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partially ¹⁾	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Missing backup block files. EC doesn't help from missing files.
duplicaTY	Easy	No	yes		No				Yes		Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
restic	Medium	No	No	Yes	No				Yes		No	Yes	No	Yes	No
borg	Medium	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	yes			Yes		Yes	Yes	No	No	No
bacula	Hard	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No		Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
urbackup	Medium	Yes	Yes		yes	No	Yes	Yes	by-file system wide				No	No	No
Prox mox backup server	Easy	No	Yes	Yes	yes	No	No	Partially ²⁾	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Good integration with PVE ³⁾, Clients only for Debian Linux and PVE, can't stage backups to cloud. Fast and easy not system hungry deduplication.

Benchmark

Backup to RPi 3B with 1TB USB 3.0 attached storage

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Erasure Code protection from block corruption

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Support VM & CT backup from PVE

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ProxMox Virtual Environment