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		_JamesA_ on July 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Att... It is an issue of trust for something as important as a backup tool. Duplicacy sounds great but it has 6 [0] contributors and Borg has 107 [1]. It's obvious which one has more eyes on it. Plus I can apt-get install borgbackup / apt-get upgrade which adds another level of trust. [0]: https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy [1]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

acrosync on July 18, 2017 [–]

We just released the source code less than 2 months ago. The difference in contributor counts may not be this big in one or two years from now.

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