[ale] Turn-key backup software

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 12:11 -0400, Steve Tynor wrote:
> 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:   
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>     http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html ; 
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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.
>  
> Backula may be a better enterprise solution for work, but I've been
> very happy with BackupPC for my home network.
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!
Do you REALLY need to write to a remote hosted encrypted drive on a
virtual server in New Zealand?
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>     Steve
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>     > On 9/21/2015 4:00 AM, Alan Hightower
>       wrote:
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> >       > > 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,
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> >       > >  
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> >       > > -Alan H.
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