Borg vs Restic: Painless Encrypted Backups You'll Actually Run

Sat, 16 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Everyone agrees backups are important, and almost nobody does them properly. The reason is rarely ignorance; it is friction. A backup scheme that is fiddly, slow or expensive simply does not get run, and an un-run backup is worth precisely nothing the day the disk dies. The good news is that two excellent open-source tools — BorgBackup and Restic — have made encrypted, deduplicated, automatable backups genuinely painless. This article walks through both, so you can pick one and actually use it.

ZFS for Mortals: Snapshots, Scrubs, and Surviving a Dead Disk

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Most filesystems are optimists. They write your data, assume the disk told the truth, and trust that the bytes you read back tomorrow are the bytes you wrote today. ZFS is a pessimist, and that pessimism is exactly why people who care about their data fall in love with it. It checksums everything, verifies what it reads, repairs what it can, and tells you loudly when it cannot. Born at Sun Microsystems and now thriving as OpenZFS on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, it folds the volume manager, the RAID layer, and the filesystem into one coherent whole. This guide walks you through the ideas and the actual commands you need to run ZFS at home without a degree in storage engineering.

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Borg vs Restic: Painless Encrypted Backups You'll Actually Run

ZFS for Mortals: Snapshots, Scrubs, and Surviving a Dead Disk