CentOS - Dec 2017 - Offsite hosted backup solutions

-----Original Message-----
From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas
Kovacs
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2017 12:52 PM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Offsite hosted backup solutions
> Can't say about Windows clients, but for all my Linux machines, I'm
> using Rsnapshot, either on public or LAN servers. Basically uses rsync
> over SSH, with incremental snapshots. I have yet to find a better backup
> solution.
> 
> https://blog.microlinux.fr/rsnapshot-centos/
I know of rsync, and the variants. We rolled an entire solution at a previous
gig with it which meant we had to implement daemons, schedules and all
the related infra. I could almost justify it except I need offsite storage that
I don?t want to also manage in addition to.

-----Original Message-----
From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Kovacs
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2017 12:52 PM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Offsite hosted backup solutions
> Can't say about Windows clients, but for all my Linux machines, I'm
Hands down Veeam Endpoint Backup for Windows clients to a secure samba share. 
https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html

1. Veeam Endpoint Backup is FREE (Seriously)

2. I backup to a Samba share that is locked to the user computer name and unique
password
	a. CentOS 6.9, Samba 3.x, RAID1 backup array 6 TB. (About 78% full)
	b. WDC WD6002FFWX-68TZ4N0 Red Pro drives
	c. 40 Windows clients on a 1g connection to BackupPC server (in name only)
	d. Backups scheduled over a 12 hour period in the evening,
	e. TWO off-site backups via USB 3.0 interface and external drives using rsync
(takes roughly 6-9 hours depending on load)
	f. ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz, 8g ram,
SSD / drive

3. YES, I've had to use it for BMR and it does work!
	a. A BMR over the network is slow but works. Particular machine was a 10/100
client.

Been using it for not quite 3 years now after finally giving up on BackupPC. 

I wrote a simple script to tell me when machines haven't backup in over 5
days so I can go pay attention to them.

It's pretty much set and forget.

Regards,

Richard

On 12/18/17 3:14 PM, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas
Kovacs
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2017 12:52 PM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Offsite hosted backup solutions
> 
>> Can't say about Windows clients, but for all my Linux machines,
I'm
> 
> Hands down Veeam Endpoint Backup for Windows clients to a secure samba
share.
> https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html
Sounds like a good solution for PC backups.

Instead of using USB drives, you can set up an offsite server with a
cheap server with big drives. OVH low cost brands offer this:

https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml

https://www.soyoustart.com/us/server-storage/

The cheapest ones only have 1 disk (not softraid) but since it?s a
second copy, depending on your budget you can assume the risk that the
offsite backup could fail (considering you are already assumming some
risk involved on using USB drives).

Miguel

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