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Desktop backup as a service ?
leapswitch
Patron Provider, Veteran
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Hello,
I am looking for products which allow providing desktop backup as a service with following features -
Incremental backups
File level and date-wise restoration
De-duplication
Compression at server-end
Does anyone know of any FOSS / Subscription based products offering this ?
Comments
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.
I have never tried it with NAT. Let me try this out.
Looking at ARQ as well.
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.
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).
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
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
Nope, Windows and OSX by now.
I tried it with SFTP and it failed miserably with my amount of small files...
I will get it today and do another tutorial (that Delimiter won't publish)