on-line back up service

[binky]

Anyone recommend an on-line back up service?

 

[Sidewinder]

Canoe,

Which Synology box do you use?

I have 2 RAID NAS devices it's just that I'm in the middle of a load of work on the laptop & have had other problems at home which meant I had to strip all of our network & had not reconnected the NAS RAID's!

It looks like a file system issue rather than a physical disk problem, don't know whether that is good or bad!

Which is a good Linux distro to have a bash with then?

I have a spare HDD for the laptop.

 

[steptoe]

Ubuntu is by far and away the easiest Sidewinder, you can get either a desktop or a server version, both have fairly easy GUI,s .

 

[ianmacd]

knoppix used to be the best live cd by far. Havent used it (or any other Live CD) for a few years though.

 

[NozSpark]

Canoeboy,

I guess that your Synology boxes are on site?

do you have any off site backup facilities?

 

[NozSpark]

1 Synology at Work in the Office, 1 Synology at home so i have offsite for both home and office if you see what i mean

Got that,,

back up home at office and office at home (or both at both)

I don't have the luxury of having an office so I'd have to backup at a family members or friends....

TBH I'm still thinking that "cloud" storage would be the best for my own circumstances,, and a much smaller initial outlay

 

[Sidewinder]

You get 2GB Cloud storage with Ubuntu!

Also look at your Hotmail account if you have one.

Probably Gmail too, and Yahoo mail?

There are probably restrictions with those mind, and perhaps even security issues, I'm sure we'll know in a minute!

 

[Robojin]

The only drawback of Dropbox is the data in the 'Cloud' is not encrypted so in theory anyone with access to the data could read it, whereas Mozy is encrypted, Mozy charge

 

[Sidewinder]

Could you not like encrypt the data at your end somehow, perhaps zip with a password, or would that not be secure enough?

Data security is another of my weak areas TBH.

 

[NozSpark]

I was thinking of a more synchronised backup solution than Dropbox or similar myself..

More like as soon as I create a file on my PC it get backed up (or changed files get backed up each night)... so IMHO dropping pasword protected zip files in Dropbox is a little bit too much work

 

[steptoe]

You get 2GB Cloud storage with Ubuntu!Also look at your Hotmail account if you have one.

Probably Gmail too, and Yahoo mail?

There are probably restrictions with those mind, and perhaps even security issues, I'm sure we'll know in a minute!

wow sidewinder,

you really are getting into this aren't you.?

 

[Sidewinder]

Been "playing" with Ubuntu on a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad Edge x64 architecture all day whilst sorting this disk out on another machine.

Still on there now, most if not all my posts all day on here have been via FF on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Linux!

With Gnome desktop 2.30.2

 

[Sidewinder]

I have a spare pc as such, though it is in storage and I will have to check the spec.

Will look up the requirements for Ubuntu server, though it ran XP Pro so it should be OK!

 

[NozSpark]

Just had a look at Genie and it does look good...

It might make me change my ideas about getting a Linux machine next... unless it's available for Linux that is?????

 

[Sidewinder]

Will probably go, though, not sure about setting up a Domain type network been so long!!!

Last time was almost pre-configured, it was NT4 on a manufacturing machine, a transfer machine with a server at the main operator console and clients at the individual stations!

Each server was connected in turn to a line server, these to an area server, to a plant server to the parent company server in Germany!

This was all separate completely from the business IT infrastructure.

BIG German Automotive Co. 3 letters in their name.

There was some access to data and screens & stuff.

Even in the parent plant they could drill right down to the individual limit switches on the profibus IO from their desktop pc's!

 

[NozSpark]

Try genie timeline and a NAS at home or a NAS at a family members and set up over FTP ( if you set up a VPN it's a lot easier with the FTP ) I use genie timeline on my win doze machines at work, it backs up changed files by the second when it notices a change

You also have a timeline of backups so can look bak a day, week, month etc

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Find a spare pc, download ubuntu server and set that up as an FTP server for backups, you can then also backup whilst out of the office if you have an Internet connection...

And you know you could dual boot windows and ubuntu on your laptop ?!

Got one of them,, I'll have to dig it out of storage though.. got an AMD XP2000 chip, 1Gb RAM and 120Gb HDD (IIRC) so it should be more than enough, however it did used to lock up now and again (that could be a hardware or software issue though - didn't investigate it at the time)

 

[steptoe]

Got one of them,, I'll have to dig it out of storage though.. got an AMD XP2000 chip, 1Gb RAM and 120Gb HDD (IIRC) so it should be more than enough, however it did used to lock up now and again (that could be a hardware or software issue though - didn't investigate it at the time)

thats way better than my PC,

and ubuntu is known for being very AMD friendly,

at least their older chips anyway run faster on ubuntu than the intel equivalent.

 

[NozSpark]

and it's been in storage for the last 6 months

 

[Robojin]

You could use a truecrypt file or container, its free open source works on everything and is VERY GOODTrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux

And the likes of dropbox (free could storage) - they normally make NO guarantee to keep your data ie if they have a problem and there backups (if they have one) fails they have no comeback, even some of the paid for cloud storage facilities have this 'get out clause' in their small print.

Well they have a contractual obligation as you are paying for them to keep a backup, otherwise they would face a Class Action

However I agree with your sentiment, which is why (as I listed in another thread) that your backup strategy should be comprehensive if you can't afford data loss.

1) Portable device (HDD or USB memory)

2) NAS with at least RAID 5 (Synology as CB recommends)

3) Cloud storage (inexpensive off site backup)

1 & 2 are readily accessible and do not require broadband

3, in the event of loss through theft or fire you have an up to date remote backup

 

[Sidewinder]

Robojin,

I suspect if you are paying then they do have a responsiblity, though they will probably have a get out clause!

For free storage, it may be Caveat Emptor?..