[Discuss] Cloud backup

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Duplicati looks good. Wasn't thinking encryption, but that should wotk

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On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 1:19 PM Rich Braun <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:

> Check out Duplicati, https://www.duplicati.com/. It works about like
> CrashPlan (the service withdrawn from home-user market a couple years ago),
> allowing you to define retention schedules and maintain a full history of
> modifications file-by-file. It can send the files to most any online
> storage service of your choice. Over the past year, its open-source
> developers have done a lot to stabilize it.
>
> Rsync by itself just makes a single copy of files so if you don't detect
> loss before the next time it runs, you're out of luck. That's why I use
> rsnapshot as my preferred secondary backup method.
>
> I always use two backup methods these days because undetected failures are
> laughably common (and not fun at all when you're trying to recover a file
> that didn't get backed up because of a neglected setting, software update,
> API key or any of dozens of other possibilities).
>
> -rich
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