Ask HN: Do non-commercial offsite backup solutions exist? Like most people, I'm not doing offsite backup of my data. Are there any low power/cost end to end solutions that I could plug into my friend's home network and backup data from my home? |
Ask HN: Do non-commercial offsite backup solutions exist? Like most people, I'm not doing offsite backup of my data. Are there any low power/cost end to end solutions that I could plug into my friend's home network and backup data from my home? |
Cross platform (Mac/Win/Linux/Solaris). Some extra features unlock if you buy the + version.
If you want a totally free solution that would take a little more work to implement, look at Duplicity:
rsync based, uses SSH/GnuPG for security.
Run one of these on whatever hardware you have available.
Rsnapshot (rsnapshot.org) is a free rsync-based backup system; it is very efficient in terms of disk space and keeps full backups, but only keeps 1 copy of each file.
and you could use TrueCrypt to add an additional level of security.