Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: >> Bacula VM with NFS mounted drives. > > Negative, captain. :) > > Bacula has gone rogue[1]. Check into Bareos, which is a 100% F/OSS > fork of Bacula. Interesting. I implemented a pair of Bacula 8U multi-terrabyte servers when working at Zayo Managed Services (was Onvoy) in 2006 to replace a Legato server and tape silo. Worked great! As a traditional style network backup solution, Bacula worked wonderfully. It still suffered from typical storage issues of traditional backup solutions that rely upon full, incremental, and differential backups. It also required you to know how to maintain a MySQL server or PostgreSQL server to store metadata about your backups. I haven't kept up to date with it, and if it has indeed gone rogue, probably not the best option. I've also tried BackupPC and liked it. Worked well on my Linux machines, but I never really managed to spend time to get it working on my wife's Mac. I currently am a paying customer of CrashPlan and like the service. It's a local company of awesome dudes just trying to write great software. Yes, it's commercial, but not everything in life has to be Free as in Libre. I'm paying them to keep an up to date copy of all of my computers on their network; I figure I'm getting my money's worth. To augment CrashPlan and to address a different issue, synchronizing files, I've been using git-annex[1], written by Joey Hess in Haskel. It uses git to store and synchronize metadata and a plugin (annex) to copy the files around (doing cool things like ensuring multiple copies exist, track off-line volumes, chose media types and or file types for different annexes, etc). It keeps my Keepassx password files, MP3, and photos synchronized between my phone, laptop, and kid's computer. I plan on using it to synchronize to my wife's computer for media sharing, etc. It takes a bit to wrap your head around it, but once you understand how the files and metadata works, you're golden. I've also been eyeballing bup[2]. Another git-based backup utility that operates similar to other backup solutions in that you don't need to great git repositories in the directories you want to track. Seems useful! Additionally, there are ways of tying bup and git-annex together - for example using bup as a backup repository for git-annex. :) Fun stuff. [1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/ [2] https://github.com/bup/bup -- Chad