[Discuss] Home server

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

I did backups using Crashplan without their service. I ran it on a few
machines at home (Win and Ubuntu, they also have a Mac client I have
not used) and backed up to my 'server machine'.  It is not open
source, but free for personal use if not using their backup service.
I even backed up friends machines to other friends machines (still
secured) over the internet (not to mine because of lack of bandwidth).
Can also backup to local drives (great for USB drives).

Eventually I started using the Crashplan service, and it was super
easy once I paid.  But I still backup some things onsite, and other
stuff offsite.

Paid for version uses better encryption.  It is easy to use (gui mainly).

It is pretty good IMHO.  I have been using it for several years.  It
installs and uses its own version of Java (so you don't have to do
java separately) and takes care of updating its own software by
itself.

It does not do bare metal restores.  You reinstall OS, software
including Crashplan, then use it to restore other stuff.  I have had
to do it several times over the years on WIN and LIN system.

I would use BackBlaze probably, but they don't have UNIX/Linux clients
(even though there servers run on it!).

... No ties, just a satisfied customer.