Duplicity

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Duplicity, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Repo can get wedged after a full-disk backup, blocking restores until backups are deleted2024-01-26
Purging old backups is hard and requires a full non-incremental backup first2021-03-10
Becomes so slow with many files and large data it's nearly unusable2019-11-26
Backups are very slow and require full backups regularly2019-06-11
Hard to install across distros, with vague error messages for non-experts2019-06-10
Finicky to set up correctly; some obscure features are counterintuitive or broken2014-11-18
Uploads never finish on slow connection and cannot resume, forcing repeated full re-uploads2013-08-08