[ale] Turn-key backup software

[Steve Tynor]

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:

     http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html

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.

Steve


On 9/21/2015 4:00 AM, 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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