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This tutorial is for performing personal backups to local USB hard drives, having encryption, deduplication and compression.

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By: Pete
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Tried Duplicati a few years ago and it took 8 hrs to backup 100G.  That's slow. Really, really, slow.  Besides that, it is based on duplicity, so like Deja Dup, it has all the "best practice" for backups check marks.

I've been using rdiff-backup, which is hardly perfect, but it doesn't require a specific client to restore the most recent backup.  It is fast.  Most daily backups for systems here take just 1-3 minutes. It uses ssh for the transport encryption, so that is covered.  Encryption on the backup storage is a slight issue, but easily handled on Linux systems using any of the encrypted file system options.  encfs, encryptfs, LUKS/dm-crypt ...