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Cohesity vs runrestic: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cohesity as "Backup, manage and gain insights from data". It allows IT professionals to backup, manage and gain insights from their data, across multiple systems or cloud providers. On the other hand, runrestic is detailed as "A wrapper script for Restic backup software that inits, creates, prunes and checks backups". It is a simple Python wrapper script for the Restic backup software that initiates a backup, prunes any old backups according to a retention policy, and validates backups for consistency. The script supports specifying your settings in a declarative configuration file rather than having to put them all on the command-line, and handles common errors.
Cohesity and runrestic belong to "Data Backup" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Cohesity are:
- Consolidate data management silos with a single, web-scale solution
- Solving mass data fragmentation
- Protect your data from edge to cloud
On the other hand, runrestic provides the following key features:
- Initiates a backup
- Prunes any old backups according to a retention policy
- Validates backups for consistency
runrestic is an open source tool with 48 GitHub stars and 13 GitHub forks. Here's a link to runrestic's open source repository on GitHub.