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## Restic ##
* creates one initial full backup - and then never again.
* creates one initial full backup - and then never again. Then it makes incremental backups.
* encrypts data
* deduplicates files
* delete backups by rules to keep a count of hourly, daily, weekly, mothly, yearly backups
* several backup targets (currently supported protocols: sftp:// https:// and file://)
* Single binary (written in Go)
* MS Windows: Backup uses volume shadow copy service (vss)
* Linux: with Fuse you can browse you can mount the backup repository and browse through all snapshots
## Duplicity ##
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# What you need to run:
* GNU core utilities
* Linux: On a basic linux installation it will run "out of the box"
* MS Windows: You need a set of GNU tools.
* Cygwin: https://cygwin.com/
* MINGW: https://www.mingw-w64.org/
* Bash
* MS Windows: You can add let open .sh files with bash
* Restic
* see the Docs https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/020_installation.html
* Get the binary from your package manager or https://github.com/restic/restic/releases
* if you don't have the binary in a directory of $PATH you can add it in the environment of the backup. See Configuration -> File env.
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## Installation with git clone
The most easy way is to use git pull.
The most easy way to install it and keep it up to date is to use `git clone|pull`.
If you don't have / want to use git see the next chapter "Manual installation: uncompress archive".
As user **root**:
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`exclude = /tmp/.*`
# Hints for MS Windows #
To define folders to backup you should not use the bash unix like notation with forward slash eg. `/c/your/path`.
There seems to be a bug in restic to show snapshots on MS Windows written with /.
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2397
Use the backslash - and quote it, eg:
```txt
include = c:\\backup
include = c:\\inetpub
include = c:\\scripts
include = c:\\Users
```
## TODO: custom single dirs with includes and exludes ##
TODO.
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