[Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

[wdc at mit.edu (Bill Cattey)]

I didn't mention it, because it's not part of my "off site" backup, but 
YES I am also doing time machine backup.

Mind you, my Time Machine drive died and I was really slow to replace 
it, so I DID have precisely the exposure flagged.  But I'm better now.  :-)

-Bill

Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 9/25/2015 8:29 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
>> By your definition Bill's solution would fail your test of what you
>> need in
>> a backup solution. He makes a backup once every couple months, then runs
>> it offsite.
>
> You are misrepresenting one aspect of his backup plan, the off-site
> storage aspect, as the entirety of his backup plan.
>
> NB: I'm making the assumption that since Bill uses SuperDuper he is
> running Macintosh and using Time Machine for routine backups.
>
>
>> This will be my last comment, since this seems to be going nowhere.
>> What's
>> sad about this back and forth is that a few people already made up their
>> minds to dismiss my solution because it doesn't fit their needs or
>> definition.
>
> I haven't dismissed it because it doesn't fit "my" needs or definition.
> I dismissed it because there are too many ways for it to fail as a
> backup plan.
>