[Duplicity-talk] Announcement: FOSS backup appliance software syncosync

[stevieh]

After several years of development I am proud to announce the 
availability of the syncosync backup appliance. It is Free and Open 
Source Software and could be useful for everybody who wants to combine 
local and remote backups with low costs and very fast disaster recovery 
capabilities. We are a small group of developers and are using the 
prototypes with duplicity since > 4 years.

The name of the project is "syncosync" the starting point to understand 
more is https://syncosync.org

So the idea is to have a Raspberry Pi4 with a decent big enough HDD at 
your place and exactly the same thing at a friends place (your backup 
buddy). The HDDs are (normally) partitioned equally which means, that 
50% of the disk space is for you, the other 50% are for your buddy.

You are putting your backups via duplicity on your local syncosync box 
using encryption, ssh+rsync and the rest is done by syncosync: the 
backups are synced to the buddies syncosync box and so they are always 
and automatically held also remote. This is also the reason, why you do 
not need any raid for your local backup. The remote HDD is the mirror of 
your local HDD.

When the maximum disaster has happened: you lost all your local data, 
you can visit your backup buddy, grab his syncosync box, buy a new 
laptop and restore your data with the speed of the local network. 
Alternatively - if you have the time - you can restore from your buddy 
via remote restore.

The whole syncosync system is operated via WebUI, there is no need for 
any commandline setup - which is possible though as there is a 
separation between core and UI. The backup per system is based on 
separated backup accounts, so your whole family or small company could 
use one syncosync system.

Right now the UI is available in English and German, we hope other 
languages will happen soon, there is a weblate project set up to support 
that.

Please give syncosync a try, we think it is a perfect alternative to 
cloud services and also a much better automation of backups than remote 
manually stored harddisk drives. There is a forum, the source code is on 
gitlab, the translation is on weblate, manuals are available in English 
right now - there is also a subsection how to use duplicity with it.

I hope it is ok, to post it here. Would be great if it could be linked 
from somewhere else at duplicity documentation :-)

Cheers
 Steve