The website says that Syncthing is a backup program.

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Hi,

If you’re looking for Linux backup Solutions that would complement the real time sync I have two recommendations.

The first is called Duplicati. It is a cross platform backup program that backs up to the cloud or local but it’s best for a cloud backup. It runs in a browser so there’s no need to install any local software.

The second is called Kopia.

Kopia is also cross platform and can back up your data with snapshots and to pretty much anywhere.

Give these to a look and perhaps one of them will meet your needs.

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Duplicati does not run in a browser. It presents its interface in a browser the same way syncthing does.

Duplicati has many reports of corrupted and unrepairable databases which cause backup failures. My laptop backup via duplicati has failed the last 3 days and I’m trying to figure out how to recover so backups can continue do that and start over by tossing all my snapshots. If I have to start over I will choose a different tool.

For Linux if you want a web browser interface suggest “backrest” which is a web based GUI for restic.

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Hi,

Sorry to hear about your problems with duplicati. I don’t use it myself but I did for a little while a few years ago. I didn’t have any problems then.

I have kopia installed. It allows me to back up to my s3 cloud drive.

I use it on Linux and on windows. I have friends and colleagues that use it as well on both platforms and they’re all happy. It treats your backups like snapshots and I do a lot of virtual machine work which does snapshots also so I like the concept.

Give that a try if you want to dump the other.

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Thanks for this tip I’ll give this a try for myself so I know what it’s like.

I’ll refrain from recommending the other based on your feedback. Thank you.

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What do you mean? It saves (and probably cleans up accordingly to the schedule) all (remotely) changed and removed files. Kind of ideal for this some-people-don’t-call-it-a-backup use case.

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It does all that but when used in a Receive Encrypted folder, the versioned filenames are all gibberish, so there is no much use of them.

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syncthing decrypt (albeit with a bit of wrestling as below) decrypts them fine, content, file name and whole path, albeit with a bit of convoluted syntax like below. Also the time when they were deleted is appended to the encrypted name (clear text) so if you have multiple versions you can pick the right ones beforehand (think if you fat fingered some deletion and you want to bring back from the untrusted remote something to decrypt locally, you don’t need to bring a year of history, you can give it specifically some filter in rsync to bring you just what ends in ~20250606-10* - that’s down to the hour).

syncthing decrypt --verbose --to ~/tmp/decrypted --password=p4ssw0rd --folder-id=abcd-1234 ~/some/folder/.stversions

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Thanks for confirming this. I had this in the back of my mind, but had not tried testing.