[Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

[matt at mattshields.org (Matt Shields)]

ownCloud has version control (
https://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.1/user_manual/files/version_control.html),
although you need to keep an eye on your server drive size.  It will start
to purge older versions if your disks exceed 50%.  But by your definition
this would still be considered a backup.

Also since I never delete from my S3 bucket where I have a nightly sync
from ownCloud to, the risk of losing everything is low.  I also have up to
24 hours to recover files that might have been written over.

Given that I already have enough safeguards for my personal needs, should
the need arise I could easily modify the sync process to do monthly full
backups (tar/gz), then incremental tar/gz for files that are new or
modified. As I mentioned, my solution may not be for everyone since I
already have cloud solutions in place for my business, which makes it
cheaper.  But it's easily scalable to the amount of redundancy I want.


Matt

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) <blu at nedharvey.com>
wrote:

> > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On
> > Behalf Of Jack Coats
> >
> > Syncing is a form of backup IMHO.
>
> The reason why syncing is not a backup, is because if you delete a file,
> and the deletion gets replicated, you cannot recover the deleted file.
>
> Ability to recover deleted files (or old versions of files that have been
> overwritten) is a pretty important characteristic of a backup system.
>