28.4 Borg Backup
The backup programs presented so far are all equipped with a graphical user interface and are primarily aimed at desktop users. But servers also need backups. And advanced Linux users prefer tools to be called as commands even on the desktop.
Before I present low-level tools for programming your own backup scripts starting in the next section, I want to present Borg Backup here (https://borgbackup.org). In terms of its functions, this is a command that is in a league with Déjà Dup.
Borg Backup creates incremental, encrypted, and compressed backups, either in a local directory or on another server where Borg Backup is also installed. (This means that Borg Backup is incompatible with cloud storage such as Amazon S3. After all, ...
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