[Tfug] Linux-based remote-backup solutions

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

Happy Friday!

Came across these Linux-based remote-backup solutions today, anyone know 
anything about them?   

> Others will give you advice on the security of the connection, but I can
> give you a couple of ideas for the backup.  Have a look at dirvish - it's a
> wrapper round rsync, making it easy to configure for regular backup
> snapshots.  Each snapshot uses hard links to the previous snapshot's files,
> so only changes actually take disk space.  It gives you all the benefits of
> regular full backups (easy to access and restore the backups) and all the
> benefits of incremental or differential backups (only changes are moved over
> the network, and the space taken is only for the changes). 

    Welcome to Dirvish
    http://www.dirvish.org/  

> Not using rsync but you may like to have a look at BoxBackup:

>   http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/

> I am using it for backup across my LAN but it's really designed to do
> encrypted backups from multiple machines across the Internet to a remote
> host(s). 

This site has an interesting page:
    Comparisons to other backup systems
    http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/comparison.html

Angus


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