(OT) Backup Software Suggestions

[Stephen Partington]

I am with Brian on the use of rsync. You can also go with zamanda wich is
rsync with some fancy UI and scripting.

On Jan 26, 2017 10:49 AM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

I like to roll my own using rsync... but mostly just wanted to point out
that you flagged your message as off topic, but it couldn't be more on
topic.

Brian Cluff


On 01/26/2017 10:03 AM, Mark Phillips 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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