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s0rce

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I have a little Solaris ZFS NAS that I use to store most of my important files and media. I usually also have the important files (mostly financials and stuff related to my phd that I'm working on) also on my desktop/laptop but I want a better backup system. I have about ~25gigs that really should be backed up well and maybe 50 more that are less important and I'll just keep a spare drive here to back them up.

I've been looking at ways to backup my ZFS NAS to a reliable (and inexpensive, I'm a poor student) online backup system.

1. Tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) looks good, runs easily on Solaris but for 25GB at $0.3/gb/month, about $100/year, not terrible but this is a bit expensive compared to some other unlimited options.

2. Carbonite, Backblaze, Livedrive etc. offer resonably cheap unlimited options but they don't really seem to be designed for UNIX CLI usage, more for win/mac desktop use. Having my files centralized on my NAS is great. Don't want to fiddle with desktop apps to backup.

3. Since ZFS incremental snapshots work well I could just send them myself to Amazon s3, bypassing tarsnap (using something like http://s3tools.org/s3tools or http://kenai.com/projects/zfs-backup-to-s3/pages/Home). This is roughly half to two-thirds the cost of using tarsnap.

I was wondering what everyone else here uses for cloud/remote/off-site backup.

Thanks,
s0rce
 
you can use crashplan (i plan to use it myself) it only cost US$3/mo. for there unlimited plan and their client runs on Solaris systems. it has a desktop app but they give instructions on how to make it headless by using ssh tunneling and using the desktop front end on a computer connected to the backend service on the server.

Never used it myself yet, other then the free backup utility, but i have heard good things about it and its the only unlimited online backup i know of that runs on other systems besides windows and mac os x
 
Thanks Poplap, I'm playing with Crashplan now. I got the engine installed on my server, memory usage is pretty steep, around 300MB but if it works well thats ok. It seems like the client can actually backup from computer->computer so my girlfriend can use it to easily back up her mac to the NASand then the NAS can back up important stuff to crashplan. I found instructions on how to make it possible to access the headless client without tunneling, see:

https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entries/97802-headless-mode-powerfull-administration-client

thought you might be interested.
 
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