On Thursday 30 August 2007 01:51, G T Smith wrote:
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An alternative often recommended here is to use an external USB caddy drive with rsync. I personally have reservations about this approach, but see no reason why it should not be a valid option to consider.
I recently became of aware of a commercial software product called CrashPlan (http://www.crashplan.com/). It's a remote backup scheme that allows any number of remote systems to act as backup hosts. This can be on-site (LAN or intranet), off-site (Internet) or, for an additional subscription fee, one of the vendor's Internet-based storage servers. Their home page mentions Windows, Mac and Linux verions, but when you go to download the trial, it tells you the Linux version is "coming soon." You pay for each copy that does the backing up but not for any of the (unlimited) destination copies. It has source-side encryption (so clear-text data never traverses the network), selective backup and, in the "pro" version, continuous incremental backup and multiple file version retention and recovery. It has one real idiosyncracy, you cannot back up to a local disk, only over the network. Maybe they'll add local backup at some point. I plan to evaluate it once the Linux version is released.
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