I went through a few products,including BackupPC, then CrashPlan, and then evaluated some and chose IDrive. SpiderOak is a close second but is a little more expensive. IDrive is not an awesome product (the occasionally apparent missing UI feature), but it works well and has the best pricing I found for feature/function. I've done AWS and S3 work so am comfy with that approach, but the time value of that self managed approach vs a turnkey product made me choose a product like IDrive. On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 5:20 AM Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > Some backup software that I've been fairly happy with is Duplicati. It's > 2.0 release is still in beta, but it's been quite stable. It can talk to > multiple backends for storage. > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:51 PM gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > >> i'm considering prospects for offsite backup. your comments are most >> welcome. what options are available and sensible? requirements specify >> metadata, filenames, and paths should be encrypted prior to sending to the >> offsite archive. encrypted communication together with encrypted storage >> might satisfy. perhaps it's silly picky to point out there's a moment in >> between when it's unencrypted. >> >> an attractive solution would be a vps with mega cheap storage. but i >> doubt they can come anywhere near the capacity and prices of the likes of >> rsync.net. or can they? >> >> backuppc is doing well on-site. i like that it does not re-transfer >> files already backed up, even when doing a full backup. however it must >> run on the backup storage server. i doubt that's possible with services >> like rsync.net. or is it? >> >> a strategy that comes to mind is to rsync the backuppc storage heirarchy >> (can omit the ?(c)pool). last i knew, asking rsync to mirror such a sea of >> hardlinks caused it to demand obscene amounts of ram. who knows, might >> work, might not. newer versions of rsync might do better, i dunno yet. >> >> duplicity certainly is popular, and provides encryption. i doubt it is >> as efficient about bandwidth, or storage, as backuppc, particularly >> regarding full backups. or is it? >> >> if there's a trove somewhere that addresses such questions, please point. >> tia, >> greg >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > -- > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20181114/bc4ab926/attachment.html>