[Cialug] Crashplan replacement

[Justin Richeson]

Thanks for all the input.  I think I've found a solution.  Duplicati will
be the frontend application for doing the backups.  Only downside is it
runs on Mono for linux clients.  I prefer to buy my own hardware and
amortize the cost though for storage.  Whole lot cheaper than cloud
solutions...so my shiny new dell server is running unRAID and has minio
docker set up to provide an S3 compatible self-hosted cloud backend.  Will
take some time to sort out config...but crashplan ain't dead yet so I have
some time.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Mike Hughes <mike at visionary.com> wrote:

> > I'll be in the same boat too. I'd prefer to do something more open-source
> > this time around.
> >
> > -dc
>
> I introduced BackupPC to my office almost two years ago and we have been
> very pleased with it. It is very customizable. We mostly use the rsync
> method and have a custom trigger to kick off the database dumps before the
> backups begin. Here are some stats from this morning showing our space
> savings:
> There are 50 hosts that have been backed up, for a total of:
>
>   *   450 full backups of total size 12316.49GB (prior to pooling and
> compression),
>   *   443 incr backups of total size 957.56GB (prior to pooling and
> compression).
>
>   *   Pool is 1348.57GB comprising 3823754 files and 4369 directories (as
> of 8/23 18:42),
> So we're achieving about 90% storage efficieincy. Granted these systems
> are all the same flavor of Linux with similar configs, so this is kind of
> an ideal case and doesn't show a typical scenerio.
> I haven't used this for Windows either so can't speak to that. I'm excited
> to try the 4.x branch but we'll wait for the next hardware refresh.
>
> After ssh keys are enabled and a list of excluded files are determined the
> only other significant challenge I've encountered has been ssh dropping out
> during extended idle periods, which I recently solved by creating a
> `config` file under the .ssh directory on the server with
> ServerAliveInterval and TCPKeepAlive settings. I'm glad to offer help if
> anyone is interested in giving it a spin.
>
> -Mike
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