(OT) Backup Software Suggestions

[Eric Cope]

I suggest Crashplan. I use their hosted paid plan, but you can install
their clients on as many machines as you like, and backup across those
machines. Their backups are encrypted. It is not OSS.


Eric

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> I am looking for a recommendation on backup software. I have a backup
> server and I have two local machines and one remote machine to backup (all
> Debian or Ubuntu - no Windows machines to worry about). The backup server
> is just command line Debian - no gui - since I only use ssh to talk to it.
> I have a new 4 TB drive ready for backups and don't know what to do with
> it..;)
>
> I used rsnapshot for awhile, but the backups had issues from time to time,
> and I am tired of troubleshooting it. Also the reporting tool rsnapreport
> didn't seem to work. With rsnapshot I was seeing ~ 1TB of backup data on my
> backup drive.
>
> I have use backuppc in the past, but it seems to be on the decline now and
> has been for awhile.
>
> I started using a cloud backup solution, altdrive, but they are closing
> shop in February. Also, it was java based, and used a lot  of CPU to make
> backups. It could be throttled, but then the backups took a really long
> time (hours to days). Finally, I had great difficulty restoring from the
> backups - I was told they were too big and the server kept timing out! So I
> had to reconfigure all of my backups to smaller sets of directories.
>
> So, any suggestions? Inexpensive cloud backup? Local backup? I have seen
> recommendations for Borg for local backups over ssh and it has a web gui
> front end which may be useful. I like that it is in Python (I can read it
> as opposed to perl...). Other suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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