On a side thought you could try looking at nextcloud if you just care about files and not disaster recovery On Jan 26, 2017 10:58 AM, "Brien Dieterle" wrote: > Backuppc moved to github and there are regular commits, so maybe it's not > dying? The 4.0 beta branch definitely is stale though: > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc > > Yeah, it's not super fancy and the uploading isn't as efficient as it > could be for duplicate files, but it is flexible and reliable. I use it > with openvpn and cygwin/rsyncd to backup family windows machines over slow > WAN. My local fs is backed up with tar. My LAN machines are backed up > with rsync/ssh for linux and plain SMB for my wife's laptop. The web > interface is pretty darn nice IMO and the files aren't terribly obfuscated > on disk. > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Mark Phillips < > mark@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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >