

My experience with backup software has typically been wizard-driven: The Duplicacy web-GUI version has a lengthy free trial period, so you have plenty of time to decide if it works for you. The pricing for a personal license is a little outside the norm - not quite SaaS, not quite a one-time purchase - but I ended up getting a 5-year license for $40. That's fine with me - I'm happy to contribute to open source projects through commercial offerings. While the core Duplicacy backup engine is open source, the web-GUI version is not, nor is it free. If you're comfortable working with the command line, there is no cost for a CLI license since it's open source.
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(Do you know how to recover your data, especially since your backup software was running on your now dead computer?)Īfter investigating a number of backup solutions, including TimeShift and Duplicati, I decided upon Duplicacy, mostly based upon community reviews.ĭuplicacy is developed by Acrosync.

Yeah, it was overkill, but you can't put a price on data loss, especially 25 years of family photos and videos. On the Mac, I backed up locally to a 1 TB external USB 3.0 drive using Time Machine and off-site to Dropbox and Amazon S3 using Arq Backup. Everything was backed up using Mac software, and I didn't have a plan for Linux backup. I switched to Pop!_OS as my daily driver but I didn't yet move my files from my old MacBook Pro.
