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<body><div>On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 12:11 -0400, Steve Tynor wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
Others have already recommended Backula for which I've always heard
good things. I've been using an alternate "backup to disk" server
on my home network for years - and couldn't be happier: <br>
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<a href="http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html">http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html</a> <br>
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It's actually quite easy to configure and supports all the OS's
we're running (Linux, OSX, Windows). It's quite good at managing
disk resources (compressing backups by pooling files that are common
across backup sets) and has easy to configure scheduling.<br>
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Backula may be a better enterprise solution for work, but I've been
very happy with BackupPC for my home network.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bacula can easily be total overkill for home use. :-) Sort of like buying the whole Maco tool truck when what you _need_ is a good pair of channel locks!</div><div><br></div><div>Do you REALLY need to write to a remote hosted encrypted drive on a virtual server in New Zealand?</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
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Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/21/2015 4:00 AM, Alan Hightower
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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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