19 Oct
2021
19 Oct
'21
1:46 p.m.
A bit late to this party, but if you're looking for an offsite backup
service I've been using Jotta Cloud and so far it's pretty nice.
Natively supports linux. Not too expensive either. I'm paying
?7.99/month for unlimited storage.
-brian
On 18/10/21 16:53, Zane Healy wrote:
On Oct 17, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com <mailto:tommytimesharing at gmail.com>>
wrote:
*Fourth*(and final) concerns RAID in an indirect way.? My Tops-20
systems are backed up on a quarterly basis and those backups
compressed and moved to alternate storage.? However, I have never
backed up any of the Ubuntu systems and, although I am running SSD
media, some of this is quite old and I'm starting to feel
uncomfortable out it.
Were you aware of any winning backup solutions?? I can restore
Tops-20 to bare metal, but I really don't remember how to do this for
Unix (although I did know it for Ultrix at one point).? So I starting
looking.? D?j? Dup looks like it won't quite do what I need, but
since it uses duplicity, I started looking at that.
Remember, even a RAID is no substitute for backup.? This was probably
more true in the days where a hardware RAID controller error
introduced a single point of failure; it may still be true for a
software RAID.
Take a look at Veeam, specifically the ?Community Edition?. ?You
should also be able to take a look at the "Veeam Agent for Linux?, as
you can simply run it on your Linux box, and point it at an NFS share
or USB disk. ?The community edition of Veeam Backup and Recovery
allows you to backup 10 Physical or Virtual systems for free. ?It?s
only downside is that it needs to run on Windows.
I do nightly Veeam backups of all the VMware VM?s that run my virtual
DEC systems. ?This has saved me in at least one case.
Bare metal Veeam restores are an option, since you asked about ?Bare
Metal?, but that?s something I?ve not tested.
Zane