<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Never underestimate the utility of locally controlled, offline backups!</div><div><br></div><div>Bacula.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a very complicated system but can all be run from a single machine. It's designed to be a GPL'ed replacement for the proprietary HP Omniback-like systems. So it supports the ability to restore itself from it's own backups using a bootable CD image generated periodically from the runing backup machine itself. It's not required for running it, but it's a very nice safety-blanket</div><div><br></div><div>You can do some nice things for home users as well. It's very reasonable to use roadwarriors to self-initiate a backup over a VPN connection. It also supports encrypted backup data with the key NEVER on the backup server(s) or backed up by the process (unless the folder storing it is backed up).</div><div><br></div><div>It will store onto nearly anything, spinning disk, tape, tape libraries, optical media, WORM media, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>It also has a very well written manual, something rare in the GPL world. You can also buy commercial support which helps fund more development.</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 04:00 -0400, Alan Hightower wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
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<p>I'm in need of a backup solution.</p>
<p>First, most of my personal data I can't stand to lose I rsync across several servers at three physical locations nightly. I also manually push it to cloud based cold storage occasionally. But I don't currently version that data beyond the few source code repositories contained within. All of my data, both critical and non, is kept on live storage that is RAID 6 or better. Recently with the growing proliferation of cyptolocker variants, DoS attacks and penetration probes on my machines, etc, I have realized the work involved in replacing the non-critical data is just as significant and the risk of malicious damage just as real.</p>
<p>I just picked up a free LTO-4 Ultium SAS drive from an enterprise upgrade and am looking to start keeping routine full, diff, and incremental off-line tape copies just in case. I have two Linux boxes (one rsync'd to the other nightly) and a Windows 7 workstation I need to natively back-up. And I am willing to pay a few hundred dollars for a commercial solution if it is pretty much turn-key and well supported when a disaster happens at 4am. Does anyone have any recommendations on FOSS or budget commercial software that would support both client OSs, a 2 node install, fairly easy to use, and not ultra-finicky about distributions? (I'm running FC21 atm).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
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<p>-Alan H.</p>
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