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Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: Thoughts for "push" backup
2011-06-16 12:09:30
Hi Timothy,
Still off-topic, I'm afraid. You could look into CrashPlan; it's a
commercial backup service, but the software is free and available
for most platforms. It does push backup over the internet either
to their cloud storage (that's not free) or to a PC of your own
(which is free). I'm not sure of the licensing situation for
commercial use of the free software (I use it for personal use, and
backuppc for work).
Randy
On 08/06/11 22:02, Timothy J Massey wrote:
Hello!
I've been asked to consider
implementing
a push-style backup for roaming users: users that are out of
the
office and irregularly connected to the Internet. We would like
to
be able to back up the profile of such users. We would like to
avoid
cloud-based services due to privacy concerns: we would like to
control
the data. That eliminates things such as Carbonite.
I have thought about dirty hacks
such
as scripting an rsync on the client to a centralized rsync
server (and
then using BackupPC to, say, hourly back up that server), but
it's a pretty
dirty hack... I'm hoping for something a little more...
polished
(at least). We would also like to avoid having to establish a
VPN
for such a solution.
Does anyone have any experience
with
such a tool where computers in random locations can connect to
an in-house
server to back up files automatically?
Thank you , and I apologize for
the
OT nature, but I figure my fellow BackupPC users might have some
suggestions!
(At least I'm not asking how to back up the pool... ;) )
Timothy J. Massey
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