I did backups using Crashplan without their service. I ran it on a few machines at home (Win and Ubuntu, they also have a Mac client I have not used) and backed up to my 'server machine'. It is not open source, but free for personal use if not using their backup service. I even backed up friends machines to other friends machines (still secured) over the internet (not to mine because of lack of bandwidth). Can also backup to local drives (great for USB drives).
Eventually I started using the Crashplan service, and it was super easy once I paid. But I still backup some things onsite, and other stuff offsite. Paid for version uses better encryption. It is easy to use (gui mainly). It is pretty good IMHO. I have been using it for several years. It installs and uses its own version of Java (so you don't have to do java separately) and takes care of updating its own software by itself. It does not do bare metal restores. You reinstall OS, software including Crashplan, then use it to restore other stuff. I have had to do it several times over the years on WIN and LIN system. I would use BackBlaze probably, but they don't have UNIX/Linux clients (even though there servers run on it!). ... No ties, just a satisfied customer. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
