Another +1 for Bacula. When I worked on campus a few years back, I setup a configuration that used Bacula to backup a few servers to tapes. Worked really well, in my opinion. For smaller stuff, CrashPlan offers their utility to use for free (backup of unlimited computers to one computer, and then if you wanted to pay for their off-site usage, you can push all of that as well. It's what I currently use at home with my family. RAID-5 on my server and then everything's off-site as well in case of severe hardware failure or a fire) On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am working on some end of year projects for my business and one of > those is to get a backup server going that will connect to all of my > various machines and perform regular backups. > > The last time I've looked into this "rsnapshot" was one of the more > nifty and free as in speech solutions. I'm thinking I'll build a box > with three 1-2TB drives, in a RAID5 configuration, and have that > connect to my various machines using a "backup" account. Each machine > will get backed up to my backup server, and then in the future I'll > also get an offsite machine set up to sync with my backup server. > > I'm not an expert in this, and I'm guessing a lot of folks on the list > might have some better ideas. I'd like to stick with "free as in > speech" solutions, and also do the storage on real hardware that I own > -- no cloud solutions. If anyone has any suggestions please share! > > Thanks, > > Erik > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131216/85b11b56/attachment-0001.html>