<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> syncthing to like four other devices with file history turned on works pretty well for me, but my needs are horribly uncomplicated to the point of being laughable (&quot;git is horribly slow and inefficient when juggling large changes in thousands of random tarballs at hundreds of megs apiece and running it every time i tweak anything would make my projects take 300x longer so just keep the last 200 versions of these files in case i have to roll back an entire month&quot;)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@zzt" class="u-url mention">@<span>zzt</span></a></span> yeah i&#39;m looking at it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> maybe try burp (backup and restore program)? It’s rsync-based.</p>

<p>i think i need a backup solution that doesn&#39;t heavily disincentivize me from actually doing backups</p>

<p>i think tarsnap has played a big part in why i take the absolute minimum amount of backups </p><p>every operation is so profoundly miserable.</p><p>want to list backups you have? wait for half a hour, get an unsorted list of names.</p><p>want to clear out old ones? you gotta write a shell script that operates on that list of backups. deleting an old deduplicated snapshot takes *forever*. </p><p>want to do a restore for a test? wait for an eternity for it to build up a &quot;cache&quot; whatever that means</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> signal used to be awful on the backup front and also would spend like 15 minutes synchronizing desktop/mobile so it was literally unusable for my purposes</p><p>they&#39;ve improved it since at least</p>

<p>up to 52% after today&#39;s work</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I&#39;ve scaled down on that front since signal got a fair bit better for small group chats, but yeah, telegram is at least stable and actually delivers messages reliably and hasn&#39;t really required any thought from me aside from dealing with a few spam incidents.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> yeah like, that&#39;s why half of my comms are via telegram lol</p>