Hi, Petter. On 26/05/15 05:30, Petter Adsen wrote:
> I'm still messing with trying to get a good backup routine, and I'm > (slowly) coming to the conclusion that other people are better at it > than I am, and I need a way to store data remotely anyway. > > Right now, I'm testing AltDrive on an Ubuntu machine. They have a Java > client (which I'm not too happy about) that seems to work well. I've > upgraded my outgoing bandwidth to be better suited to doing backups > to a remote destination. I haven't tested the client with Debian yet, > as you can only run it on one machine with the service you can try for > free for one month. > > One thing I miss is the ability to do backups of NFS-mounted file > systems. Neither do I like the dependence upon Java. Apart from that, > it seems to work quite well. It does version control, handles > encryption locally with keys I manage myself, and I can use as much > space as I need. It wouldn't cost any more than using Dropbox. There is > also a command line interface, apparently, although it seems very basic. > > Does anyone here have any experience with this or similar services that > work well with Debian? Do any of them have the ability to do backups of > network file systems, so that I won't need to run the client on several > machines? This could be especially important to me soon, as I'm > considering to buy a small NAS, and I'm unlikely to find a client that > will run locally on that. > > That said, I would be really, really happy if the client was open > source. Another thing that would be nice is if they have servers in > Europe, so that I wouldn't need to push the data back and forth across > the Atlantic. > > I have found a loooong list of backup providers on Wikipedia, but it > would take forever to research each and every one of them to find out > which ones are suited to my purpose and find other people's experiences > with them, which is why I'm asking here, in a hope to narrow it down to > just a few. > > Any insights and experiences with this or equivalent services would be > much appreciated. Relevant advice, the same. You could try Bacula. You could also use Dirvish, although it does not running as a service, it gives good results. It works with rsync and optimize disk space usage maintaining hard links to the files unchanged between a backup and the next. I hope this helps. Best regards, Daniel
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