One matches your headline, one is cheap, and one is really, really solid. I have three options I'll present for you.
In any case, you'd just need to figure out the rsync command-line options to run on your home computers to copy the differences over the wire with the minimal overhead. My USB HDD enclosure runs on 12V directly, and a $5 car cell phone charger can provide the the listed router needs: You could even do without the power grid, setting up a modest solar panel to charge a 12V battery. Hell, if you can find a location to put it that's under a KM from your home, you could even skip the internet requirement, and use WiFi for connectivity. If you can't get them to open a port on their firewall, then you'll need to do "reverse SSH" tunneling, but it'll still work just a bit slower. Stick this contraption in a datacenter, under your desk in your office, in a friends/neighbor's house, etc.
ARRSYNC INCREMENTAL VS WHOLE FILE FREE
Give it a free dyndns address (or some other service that screws free customers less). Use sdparm to set it to spin-down after 30 minutes of inactivity. Where's the challenge? What's the piece you can't figure out?Ī DD-WRT compatible WiFi router with USB port goes for $30, and draws all of 2W of power.Ĭonnect a USB hard drive, enable mass storage, and SSH access. Somewhere some new-hire slashdotter may take that as gospel and cost him or herself their job in the future - or at the very least look like foolish in front of their peers when they parrot it. If you want to get "enterprise grade", please consider backup systems aimed at, well, *enterprises*.ġ) Bacula (open source, requires an IQ above a demented bee to admin)Ģ) Symantec Netbackup (expensive, IQ required)ģ) Commvault (expensive, minimal IQ required)Ĭlonebox may work *great* for you and your business - by all means keep using it! Nothing wrong with plugging it either, but please don't plug it as "enterprise grade". You said "enterprise grade" - reason #4 alone clobbers that assertion. This is why Clonebox and similar solutions are not "enterprise grade":Ĥ) you do not control *where* the data lives Other systems may be more applicable for home use.Ĭlonebox is fine for home use.it's not enterprise grade though, please don't represent that it is to the droves of slashdot readers. To meet all of the above requirements, we use an enterprise grade system called Clonebox. Our experience with web servers indicates that approximately 60% of backups provided by hosting providers don't actually work when you try to restore them As OP said, spending two weeks downloading your data isn't acceptable.īackups must be tested. Fires and burglars will take your backup if it is on site.īackups must be accessible. You must have access to older backups.īackups must be offsite.
A midnight backup is useless if you are hacked at 11:55 PM, or discover a problem 2 days later.
You must ROTATE and then sync to be doing anything more than pretending that you have a backup.īackups must be fully automatic, otherwise you'll stop doing them regularly.īackups should be rotated. They'd discover that they got rooted two weeks before, they'd overwritten an important file two days before, etc. Approximately everyone I've seen try that method got screwed in the end. At 8:00 AM, discover that your filesystem got hosed at 10:00 PM, so you now have two copies of garbage.ĭo not just sync periodically.
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