Yet another vote for crashplan - I've got it running on my wife's Ubuntu laptop backing up to the house Debian file-server. I may set up something off-site at some future time - right now I'm happy with my manual backups for everything except her laptop. She can be kind of hard on her laptops, and needs the seamless backup. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:09:26AM -0600, Josh Trutwin wrote: > Another vote for crashplan. Has many useful features. I use it > backup my parent's computer to my home file server. > > Another thing I do with my file server is I use a RAID-1 array and > got a 3rd drive. Every few months I swap one of the drives and take > the one back to work with me. > > Josh > > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:10:46 -0600 > Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Jeremy! > > > > I recently evaluated this too, and chose CrashPlan.com. Key reasons > > include so many supported platforms, the software is free (only pay > > to backup to their cloud), can backup to peers for free (including > > your buddy's computer located elsewhere or local attached storage), > > and their cloud plans are either a cheap 10G or the rest are > > unlimited data amounts. Plus they're a local MN company (and I have > > professional acquaintance of at least one person working there, so I > > know it's a reasonable place). > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson > > <jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some off-site backup > > > solutions for home users that are Linux friendly? I currently get > > > some free, very throttled, backup space through a web host that I > > > may leave soon if I can find a cheaper alternative. Currently I > > > use SFTP (SSH) with rsync and encfs (like mcrypt but folder level > > > via FUSE). So basically I would need to be able to mount the > > > storage in Linux (sole web interfaces are not an option). I need > > > about 50 GB with future growth of up to around 250 GB (probably > > > the absolute max I would need). > > > > > > Any thoughts or suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > Jeremy MountainJohnson > > > Jeremy.MountainJohnson 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org