(OT) Backup Software Suggestions

[Austin Godber]

I've always found backuppc an excellent solution though maybe a little
heavy handed for just a home office.

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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