The systems run off a pair of 8 GB thumb drives running FreeNAS with ZFS on them for encryption and reliability. Right now we both have a small ITX-based machine with 4x 10 TB HDDs in them. Then we just rsync our machines to directories on those servers. So now we just buy identical servers, and use ssh tunnels (via a pair of OpenWRT-based routers to connect our sites, and another ssh tunnel on the machines) to make them accessible to the other person. I made a deal with a coworker who works in an office on the other side of the ocean. I earnestly hope this was a mis-step which they soon correct, and that it doesn't indicate a new direction for what has been a really top-notch company that provides a trustworthy product. It's basically everything that I do not expect from Code42. This change seems poorly considered, badly executed, and involves a gross failure to communicate. Even if they were to shut down the service, all my experiences with them give me confidence that I could, at the very least, order a drive with all my data before the door closes. When they dropped the consumer product, they offered a generous introductory rate - and data migration - to customers who carried over to their Business product. When I've had a problem, they've not only solved my problem, but sometimes even comped a little paid time as a goodwill gesture (when it wasn't their fault). In that time, they've had many changes, but they've announced them with enough time for customers to plan and possibly migrate their backup methods. I recommend them because they are "safe" not for the price or flashy features. I've recommended it to colleagues and to several clients. I've used CrashPlan for about 10 years as a paying customer, though I hosted data for several friends until they removed that option.
If you have good FTP software that might be all you need, and backup for free.
And if you have loads of data and want more cold storage the monthly costs and retrieval fees are cheaper than other cloud services.Įven if you don’t want or need BackBlaze the availability of 10GB of free public/private online storage is worthwhile.
Backups are normally kept for rolling 30 days, so if you want to protect old versions of files you can put them into cold storage and it doesn’t cost you a penny. BackBlaze online backup is just £5 per month.
zip and put it somewhere else on your disk.
If you really want to back up that data you can always archive them to. They don’t back up all files either, however they are a bit more sensible about it and just exclude system and application directories. Then they started getting sniffy about what I could and couldn't back up and put up prices.
Since Duplicacy stores complex backup images of your files, you cannot access the individual files directly from your storage drive, you need to use the Restore option in Duplicacy to download or restore your files.I used Crashplan for years and was very happy with the policy of unlimited data without filters. Other features include email notification on completed backups, include/exclude patterns, support for Volume Shadow Copy, integrated restore option, and more. The program can store your backup on a local drive, Amazon S3, Dropbox, MS Azure, Google Cloud or and SFTP server of your choice. There is almost nothing to configure other than your backup schedule and the backup target.
While this sounds rather complicated, Duplicacy is very easy to use. A two-step fossil collection algorithm is devised to solve the fundamental problem of deleting unreferenced chunks under the lock-free condition, making deletion of old backups possible. The program is built on top of a new idea called Lock-Free Deduplication, which works by relying on the basic file system API to manage deduplicated chunks without using any locks. You can delete older backups without affecting your current backup sets. Smart backup tool for local and cloud storage backupsĭuplicacy can back up your files to several cloud storage services with (optional) client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication, which reduces disk space usage by eliminating storage of duplicate files.ĭuplicacy only backs up files that have changed and stores each backup as a complete set.