[ale] Turn-key backup software

[Jim Kinney]

Never underestimate the utility of locally controlled, offline backups!
Bacula.
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
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).
It will store onto nearly anything, spinning disk, tape, tape
libraries, optical media, WORM media, etc.
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.
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 04:00 -0400, Alan Hightower wrote:
>  
> I'm in need of a backup solution.
> 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.
> 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).
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> -Alan H.
>  
>  
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