drkarl

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Amanda (comments by sammcj)

• It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.

weakish

Sync

rsync.net

• $0.015 per GB/m (at least 680 GB), $0.01 per GB/m for more than 100 TB, $0.006 per GB/m for more than 1 PB.
• git-annex discount: at least 100GB, paid annually)
• attic/borg discount: at least 100 GB, paid annually)
• Remote SSH commands (checksum, mv, cp, rm, tree, dd, etc.) supported
• git

dysinger

#!/bin/sh

# on ubuntu: need some utils & dev libs
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils openssl libssl-dev libpcre3-dev

# compile nginx
cd /tmp
curl http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.7.64.tar.gz | tar xz
cd nginx*
./configure --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_dav_module \