If you are comfortable with the command line you may wish to take a look at LBackup. If you have any ideas relating to a GUI wrapper for the LBackup project or are interested in being involved with the further development of LBackup / a GUI wrapper then send a message to the projects discussion mailing list.
If you are comfortable with the command line, you may wish to take a look at discussion mailing list.
Great post. I just found out that Arq4 was out this weekend as well, and the ability to backup using sFTP is awesome. I have an old (G4) Mac Mini at work that serves as the remote CrashPlan backup site for my home systems, so now with Arq I can also put an Arq archive there as well. For my data (about 1.7TB), the current backup in Glacier is starting to run into real money! It will be much more economical in the long run to move the big data into a remote sFTP repository, and just duplicate the really critical stuff into Glacier as well - or maybe go with a collocated Mac Mini as you suggest as my second offsite location.
While restoring from Glacier _is_ very slow, it works well under Arq, and I have had to restore a lost folder using Arq at one point, so I was glad I had it. As an aside to one of the earlier posts, the lost folder was something that disappeared while stored on a Transporter, which has (for me) still been experiencing growing pains.
I'm also looking at the spacemonkey, which was a KickStarter project but which I just heard about as well. It seems to provide 1TB of cloud storage that is replicated in a distributed fashion throughout all internet connected spacemonkeys as well as stored on your local spacemonkey as well. It's a pretty new product, and their website is remarkably devoid of any technical info that would make me more interested in the $199 upfront purchase price, so I am still thinking about it.
I use Arq and will likely purchase Arq 4 but I did see this http://filetransporterstore... which intrigued me. In addition I will likely purchase a DROBO mini to use all those 2.5" drives I have hanging around after various upgrades to my MacMini server!
Isn't that what the basement is for? I don't get the major rush to locate things in someone else's space. Unless you are looking for HA, keeping your servers and storage local to your workstations makes more sense and gives more security in my opinion.
Basements flood, houses burn. I keep local backups as well, but I like to have at least one offsite backup for important data. Losing your computer to unfortunate circumstances is bad enough, losing all the backups of it at the same time is even worse.
True. Still I hope that people reading the article realize that keeping your own backups on site is a first line of defense.
In my case I have a Time Capsule and an xServe with 5Tb int he basement, and I have a Mac mini that is located in my wife's server closet at work (yes, she is awesome). If something bad like an earthquake happens in seattle, don't email me ;~)
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