I'm still messing with trying to get a good backup routine, and I'm (slowly) coming to the conclusion that other people are better at it than I am, and I need a way to store data remotely anyway. Right now, I'm testing AltDrive on an Ubuntu machine. They have a Java client (which I'm not too happy about) that seems to work well. I've upgraded my outgoing bandwidth to be better suited to doing backups to a remote destination. I haven't tested the client with Debian yet, as you can only run it on one machine with the service you can try for free for one month. One thing I miss is the ability to do backups of NFS-mounted file systems. Neither do I like the dependence upon Java. Apart from that, it seems to work quite well. It does version control, handles encryption locally with keys I manage myself, and I can use as much space as I need. It wouldn't cost any more than using Dropbox. There is also a command line interface, apparently, although it seems very basic. Does anyone here have any experience with this or similar services that work well with Debian? Do any of them have the ability to do backups of network file systems, so that I won't need to run the client on several machines? This could be especially important to me soon, as I'm considering to buy a small NAS, and I'm unlikely to find a client that will run locally on that. That said, I would be really, really happy if the client was open source. Another thing that would be nice is if they have servers in Europe, so that I wouldn't need to push the data back and forth across the Atlantic. I have found a loooong list of backup providers on Wikipedia, but it would take forever to research each and every one of them to find out which ones are suited to my purpose and find other people's experiences with them, which is why I'm asking here, in a hope to narrow it down to just a few. Any insights and experiences with this or equivalent services would be much appreciated. Relevant advice, the same. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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