why not just use dd and a sufficiently large backup device connected directly to the machine. I maintain 3 backups here (1 daily, one weekly and one monthly). it takes 3 HDD external devices, but it's well worth the effort. Basically, I just image the entire device. It's easier to restore that way.
-eric from the central office of the Technomage Guild. On Jan 26, 2017, at 10:03 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I am looking for a recommendation on backup software. I have a backup server > and I have two local machines and one remote machine to backup (all Debian or > Ubuntu - no Windows machines to worry about). The backup server is just > command line Debian - no gui - since I only use ssh to talk to it. I have a > new 4 TB drive ready for backups and don't know what to do with it..;) > > I used rsnapshot for awhile, but the backups had issues from time to time, > and I am tired of troubleshooting it. Also the reporting tool rsnapreport > didn't seem to work. With rsnapshot I was seeing ~ 1TB of backup data on my > backup drive. > > I have use backuppc in the past, but it seems to be on the decline now and > has been for awhile. > > I started using a cloud backup solution, altdrive, but they are closing shop > in February. Also, it was java based, and used a lot of CPU to make backups. > It could be throttled, but then the backups took a really long time (hours to > days). Finally, I had great difficulty restoring from the backups - I was > told they were too big and the server kept timing out! So I had to > reconfigure all of my backups to smaller sets of directories. > > So, any suggestions? Inexpensive cloud backup? Local backup? I have seen > recommendations for Borg for local backups over ssh and it has a web gui > front end which may be useful. I like that it is in Python (I can read it as > opposed to perl...). Other suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Mark > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
