(OT) Backup Software Suggestions

[herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com]

This was mentioned in the last meeting but I would suggest checking out
tarnsap. It is a cloud based backup solution that encrypts locally then
sends it to tarsnap servers. The code is BSD licensed and the creator
was the Security Officer for FreeBSD till 2012. The pricing is pretty
straight forward. Check them out.
HerminioOn Thu, 2017-01-26 at 10:03 -0700, 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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