(OT) Backup Software Suggestions

[Eric Oyen]

why not just use dd and a sufficiently large backup device connected directly to the machine. I maintain 3 backups here (1 daily, one weekly and one monthly). it takes 3 HDD external devices, but it's well worth the effort. Basically, I just image the entire device. It's easier to restore that way.

-eric
from the central office of the Technomage Guild.

On Jan 26, 2017, at 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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