(OT) Backup Software Suggestions

[Stephen Partington]

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" <briend at gmail.com> 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 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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