On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:18 PM, ianseeks <ianseeks@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 14:20:39 GMT Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:10 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/16/2016 09:39 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Hi
Does anyone know where is could find a company/site that will allow me to store backups off site via rsync or sftp? I couldn't see anything on dropbox that would do me.
Regards
Ian
Why do you care exactly what method is used for backups? How much do you need to be stored off-site?
Personally, I use SpiderOak, who have clients for Windows and Linux and Mac. I thought I would need a boat load of storage, so I started with a 100 GiG subscription. I back up Two Linux machines and two Windows machines, selecting specific critical directories, (I don't back up the operating systems), but a users directories as well as financial data, software source code and build environments, etc.
It turns out that these 4 machines account for just over 8 Gig.
I use Spideraok in Backup mode, not data sync mode. Some might call this a contribution mode, where each changed file is backed up and can be rolled back incrementally, and user deleted files still remain in the backup.
In spite of this redundancy, It still uses only 8Gig.
I also use rsync (via Unison) to another machine across town in our other office.
It's so small because SpiderOak dedups the data before calculating the size. It also may compress the data before it calculates the size.
I have a lot more data than John, but I'm still below the 100GB point.
They no longer have a 100GB price point:
https://spideroak.com/about/price-list
Instead:
30 GB - $7/month 1 TB - $12/month
I've been a SpiderOak user for what seems like 10 years (and maybe really is).
Early on it took forever to backup 10's of GBs (ie. a month for 100GB?).
Now I can restore a 50GB share in less than 24 hours.
Greg
Thanks, had a quick look at it but i can't see if its got a UK hosted service or sftp/rsync access.
No it doesn't offer either.
SpiderOak is all inclusive backup service. You get their "Fedora" RPM and install it as I recall.
It does fine with openSUSE. They also have a Mac and Windows client.
It establishes a secure/encrypted connection back to their servers and does the backup similar to how rsync works.
A 2GB account is free so you can test with it.
I use the "sync" feature to keep 6 different folder trees in sync across about 15 machines. Most are powered on several times a week so they have time to get the updates. I have about 80GB in the cloud with them.
Greg Thanks Greg. Is it only a GUI based solution or can it be activated on demand in a script without input or does it have its own "cron" type function? I'm
On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 19:28:56 GMT Greg Freemyer wrote: trying to find a solution i can use without installing software from external sources but if that's not possible, i'll have to bite the bullet. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org