[Gllug] offsite backup services

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On 12/12/2007, Paul Lee <paul at ma1.se> wrote:

> Hmm, I had thought of connecting four USB drives up via a hub. I didn't
> consider Amanda as I was looking at Acronis True Image as it looks
> simple to configure (well the windows workstation version is).

If you're forced to go the windows route, I can confirm Acronis as being
pretty solid: It's saved my skin in the most testing of user environments:
A laptop owned by my children which regularily gets wiped. Also a
client's 3-workstation setup, which runs an automated incremental: it
makes me sleep well at night.

I implemented a backup box a couple of years ago which was a bunch
of disks hanging off a couple of 3ware controllers: a frontend to rsync
called dirvish[1] with some nice options. The overnights were taken to
the DR site and verified, so not really a 'across the wire solution', but
the client's funds were limited.

Tid.

[1] http://www.dirvish.org
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