[Cialug] Most reliable backup solution

[Matthew Nuzum]

Thanks for all the tips, everyone. Scott, can you shed more light on how your bare metal monthly backups work?
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> On Feb 12, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
> 
> I use a hybrid approach here:
> 
> Proxmox <http://www.proxmox.com/> on bare metal to manage the vms (really
> nice btw).
> Crashplan <http://crashplan.com> for file level onsite and offsite live
> backups.
> Image For Windows/Linux <http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/> for bare metal
> monthly backups.
> Freenas <http://www.freenas.org/> on bare metal using 8x2tb sata wd red
> drives (expandable to 16) in a raidz3 ZFS pool.
> 
> All are either free or inexpensive and very solid products.
> 
> Using this system I can pull a file back from errant changes/deletions with
> crashplan, and in worse case pull back the most recent full image and just
> restore changed files since that image was taken.
> 
> Bare metal back to happy server takes around 15-20 minutes in my tests.
> 
> BTW, thanks for the proxmox suggestion Ken!
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