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Desktop backup as a service ?

leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

Hello,

I am looking for products which allow providing desktop backup as a service with following features -

  1. Incremental backups

  2. File level and date-wise restoration

  3. De-duplication

  4. Compression at server-end

Does anyone know of any FOSS / Subscription based products offering this ?

Comments

  • r1soft?

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @William said:
    r1soft?

    R1Soft does all of the above, but is for servers only. Desktops behind a router don't have public IPs (per desktop) for licensing. Also, R1Soft pulls data from the servers, whereas desktops will need to push data to the backup server.

  • Wait... what? I'm sure r1soft works on Desktop behind NAT - I had that when i still used Windows.

    ARQ is another option but provides no server backend, just interfaces by SFTP/S3/FTP/etc. Rather cheap one time license fee (40$/client). No idea about dedup.

  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    @William said:
    Wait... what? I'm sure r1soft works on Desktop behind NAT - I had that when i still used Windows.

    ARQ is another option but provides no server backend, just interfaces by SFTP/S3/FTP/etc. Rather cheap one time license fee (40$/client). No idea about dedup.

    I have never tried it with NAT. Let me try this out.

    Looking at ARQ as well.

  • mikhomikho Member, Host Rep

    ahsay.com is another solution (don't remember if the offer only the client and storage on their servers).

    install serverand pay license/client. works very well on Desktop.

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  • leapswitch said: I have never tried it with NAT. Let me try this out.

    As i understand the r1soft client calls the r1soft licensing server - not the other way around. This should be supported in any NAT that routes TCP back (which all do, else it would be, uh, useless).

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  • leapswitchleapswitch Patron Provider, Veteran

    Thanks @mikho and @William . Let me try both.
    Also looking into BareOS which is forked from Bacula.

  • R1Soft works fine about 1/4 our R1Soft customers are backing up desktops.

    ARQ I think is Mac only, but works well with S3, I am using it with ObjSpace

    Ahsay works well but was expensive last time I looked

    Others:

    DragonDisk, JungleDisk, Cloudberry S3 Backup

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    I have never used Bacula but it may be what you're looking for to self-host: http://www.bacula.org

    Looks like AMANDA is still being developed, too: http://www.amanda.org

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  • WilliamWilliam Member
    edited October 2015

    MarkTurner said: ARQ I think is Mac only, but works well with S3, I am using it with ObjSpace

    Nope, Windows and OSX by now.

    I tried it with SFTP and it failed miserably with my amount of small files...

  • William said: Nope, Windows

    I will get it today and do another tutorial (that Delimiter won't publish)

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